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Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, this movie memorializes the three Black women at NASA who were instrumental in launching astronaut John Glenn into orbit, changing the ...
An Education is a 2009 coming-of-age drama film based on a memoir of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby . It stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, and Peter Sarsgaard as David, the charming conman who seduces her.
Eva Flicker, writing in 2002, noted that in science fiction films, men are overwhelmingly portrayed as scientists, making up 82% of all film scientists. [15] The majority of films that include female scientists and engineers as primary characters are placed into the action, adventure and comedy genre. [16]
Language. English. Budget. $ 750,000 (est.) Miss Representation is a 2011 American documentary film written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. [ 1][ 2] The film explores how mainstream media contributes to the under-representation of women in influential positions by circulating limited and often disparaging portrayals of women.
“Women’s films have always been made; they just haven’t been given the platform that they need.” Each general admission ticket or festival pass is good for both a virtual and in-person ...
Educating Peter. Educating Peter is a 1992 American short documentary film directed by Gerardine Wurzburg about Peter Gwazdauskas, a special needs student with Down syndrome, and his inclusion in a standard third grade classroom in Blacksburg, Virginia. It won an Oscar at the 65th Academy Awards in 1993 for Documentary Short Subject. [ 1][ 2]
Maestra is a 33-minute documentary film directed by Catherine Murphy, about the youngest women teachers of the 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign. In 1961, Cuba aimed to eradicate illiteracy in one year. It sent 250,000 volunteers across the island to teach reading and writing in rural communities for one year. 100,000 of the volunteers were under 18 ...
It is a great field, this field of visual education and propaganda, if you use the word propaganda as the South Americans do, meaning education. Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1939 Guest Column: How Movies ...