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Duhozanye: A Rwandan Village of Widows is a feature Norwegian documentary film for television from 2011 by director Karoline Frogner. [1]Norway's previous minister of justice, Knut Storberget, referred to Duhozanye in his latest book: "a film about a community of widows in Rwanda, an insightful and intense depiction of these widows."
The title of the film references Elisabeth Elliot's 1957 bestseller, Through Gates of Splendor. First published in 1957, the book told the original story of the five martyred missionaries. A low budget documentary film was also produced with the same name in 1967.
The movie examines how these widows, who were forced by their family to give up their belongings, ended up being social outcasts. The Forgotten Woman seeks to raise awareness of the various and pervasive challenges that still surround women's pursuit of economic independence in the 21st century in order to achieve a semblance of self-respect ...
Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles.The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.
The decision to focus on three primary characters from America’s radio era narrows the documentary to a respectable and digestible 90 minutes. Plus, it is full of fun, fuzzy broadcast sounds ...
Makers: Women Who Make America is a 2013 documentary film about the struggle for women's equality in the United States during the last five decades of the 20th century. The film was narrated by Meryl Streep and distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service as a three-part, three-hour television documentary in February 2013.
The widow of the ultra-secretive Lebanese banking billionaire Edmond Safra, founder of Republic New York Corp. (now part of HSBC), Lily is one of the world's most elusive individuals.
The film was nominated for Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. [2] [7] At the 2013 IDA Documentary Awards, the film received the Pare Lorentz Award, which recognizes films for model filmmaking while focusing on the use of the natural environment, and justice for all and the illumination of pressing social problems. [8]