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The film does include the significant contribution of Lesbian women to feminism, but it is noted that it missed an opportunity to include trans women. [1] Erika Voeller of Mpls MadWomen notes that the women of color in the documentary express frustration with balancing their multiple identities within the movement but that the documentary ...
Full Circle is a 1993 Canadian documentary.Directed by Donna Read and made in conjunction with the National Film Board of Canada, Full Circle completes Read's trilogy of documentaries focusing on women's spirituality in the Western World at the end of the 20th century, the Goddess movement, and feminist Wicca new religious movements.
The film is directed by Ted Evans, who is deaf, and features an all-deaf lead cast. It is loosely-based on a short film of the same name previously directed by Evans, which won awards at the Italian Cinedeaf Film Festival in Rome in December 2013 including Best Director in the fiction category for Evans with Sophie Leigh Stone winning Best Interpretation for her leading role.
Honor Diaries traces the work of nine women’s rights advocates who came together to engage in a discourse about gender inequality and honor-based violence.Combining in-depth interviews and round-table discussions with archival footage, the film examines human rights violations in honor-based societies, and the growing trend of honor crimes in Western societies.
Women in documentary film describes the role of women as directors, writers, performers, producers, and other film industry professions. According to a 2017 study by San Diego University's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, women make up around thirty percent of the population of people working in the documentary film industry, worldwide. [1]
Women He's Undressed is a 2015 Australian documentary film about costume designer Orry-Kelly, three time winner of the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Directed by Gillian Armstrong , it stars Darren Gilshenan , Deborah Kennedy , David E. Woodley , and Lara Cox .
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film project by two women filmmakers from Israel: Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel.The film is about the application of the vipassana meditation technique taught by S. N. Goenka to prisoner rehabilitation at Tihar Jail in India [1] (which was reputed to be an exceptionally harsh prison). [2]
The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 13, 2022. [3] Shortly after, Sony Pictures Classics acquired distribution rights to the film. [4] The film was screened at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2022 [5] [6] and was released on October 21, 2022.