Afghanistan: The Lost Truth
(Haghighat-e Gomshodeh)
A film by Yassamin Maleknasr
The first woman and filmmaker to have traveled across Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Iranian director Yassamin Maleknasr captures extraordinary, frank, and previously unheard interviews from across the country from rural families dreaming of stability and peace, to inspirational female medical students, to well-known Afghani’s like filmmaker Siddiq Barmak (OSAMA). Exquisite and beautifully shot, this is a remarkable tribute to a people determined to rebuild their beloved nation. More.

As I Remember It
A Portrait of Dorothy West
A film by Salem Mekuria
This intimate portrait of writer Dorothy West explores the forgotten role of women in the Harlem Renaissance. From the perspective of her 83 years, the still active writer relates her memories of growing up African American, privileged and enthralled by literature. Archival footage and photographs, interviews and excerpts from her autobiographical novel, THE LIVING IS EASY, capture West’s fascinating story. More.

B.D. Women
A film by Inge Blackman
This celebration of the history and culture of Black lesbians features interviews with Black women talking candidly about their sexual and racial identities interwoven with a dramatized love story set in the 1920s, in which a sultry romance develops between a gorgeous jazz singer and her stylish butch lover. More.

Beyond Black and White
A film by Nisma Zaman
BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE is a personal exploration of the filmmaker’s bicultural heritage (Caucasian and Asian/Begali) in which she relates her experiences to those of five other women from various biracial backgrounds. In lively interviews and group discussions these women reveal how they have been influenced by images of women in American media, how racism has affected them, and how their families and environments have shaped their racial identities. Their experiences are placed within the context of history, including miscegenation laws and governmental racial classifications. BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE is a remarkable celebration of diversity in American society. More.

 

Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson & the Little Review
A film by Wendy Weinberg
Bold literary visionary Margaret Anderson founded the journal Little Review in 1914, an overlooked but profound influence on American literature. Anderson introduced writers such as Gertrude Stein, Emma Goldman, Djuna Barnes and Ezra Pound, and went to trial for publishing excerpts from James Joyce's new work, ULYSSES. Immersed in her own pointed, charismatic writings, this engrossing profile follows Anderson's inspiring life and travels. Anderson resisted censorship, meager finances and mediocrity in her unflagging search for literary enchantment; this film reveals her life to be her greatest creation. More.

 

Blind Spot: Murder by Women
A film by Irving Saraf, Allie Light &
Julia Hilder
From the Academy® and Emmy®-award winning filmmakers responsible for DIALOGUES WITH MADWOMEN, this provocative and riveting film taps the memories, fantasies, dreams, anger, and coping strategies of six women who candidly describe their actions as perpetrators in taking a life.  This is an indispensable work about throw-away children, out-of-control adults, and the emotional, psychological and spiritual consequences of murder. More.

The Body of a Poet
A Tribute to Audre Lorde
A film by Sonali Fernando
An imaginary biopic, THE BODY OF A POET centers on the efforts of a group of young lesbians of color to devise a fitting tribute to one of this century's great visionaries. Its genre-bending celebration of the life and work of Audre Lorde, black lesbian poet and political activist, daringly meshes diverse media conventions and techniques as it explores Lorde's trajectory from birth to death. Refreshing and visually stunning, this brave film features assured acting by a dedicated cast and a taut script comprising the work of contemporary African American lesbian poets. More.


 

Brincando El Charco
Portrait of a Puerto Rican
A film by Frances Negrón-Muntaner
In a wonderful mix of fiction, archival footage, processed interviews, and soap opera drama, BRINCANDO EL CHARCO tells the story of Claudia Marin, a middle-class, light-skinned Puerto Rican photographer/ videographer as she attempts to construct a sense of community in the U.S. Confronting the simultaneity of her privilege and her oppression, this film becomes a meditation on the social constructs of class, race, and sexuality. More.


 

Recommended Subject Areas
    African American
    History
    Music & Performance

...But Then, She's Betty Carter
A film by Michelle Parkerson
This unforgettable portrait of legendary vocalist Betty Carter, one of the greatest living exponents of jazz, captures Carter's musical genius, her paradoxical relationship with the public, and her fierce dedication to personal and artistic independence: uncompromised by commercialism, she founded her own recording company and raised two sons as a single parent. More.

Columbus on Trial
A film by Lourdes Portillo
Inspired by the controversy surrounding the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of America, Lourdes Portillo has fashioned a fanciful version of a courtroom were Columbus to return from his grave to stand trial. Cross-examined by the Latino comedy group Culture Clash, Columbus is charged with atrocities against the Native peoples of the New World. More.
 

The Desert Is No Lady
A film by Shelley Williams in collaboration with Susan Palmer
With provocative imagery and spirited juxtapositions, THE DESERT IS NO LADY looks at the Southwest through the eyes of its leading contemporary women artists and writers, including author Sandra Cisneros. The nine women profiled are Pat Mora (poet), Sandra Cisneros (writer), Lucy Tapahonso (poet), Emmi Whitehorse (painter), Harmony Hammond (painter), Meridel Rubinstein (photographer), Nora Naranjo Morse (sculptor), Pola Lopez de Jaramillo (painter) and Ramona Sakiestewa (tapestry artist). The Southwest is a border territory - where cultures meet and mix - and the work of these nine women from Pueblo, Navajo, Mexican-American and Anglo backgrounds reflects its special characteristics. More.

DiAna's Hair Ego: AIDS Info Up Front
A film by Ellen Spiro
Realizing the extreme inadequacy of local information on AIDS prevention, cosmetologist DiAna DiAna, with her partner Dr. Bambi Sumpter, took on the task of educating the Black community in Columbia, South Carolina. This provocative, funny and informative videotape documents the growth of the South Carolina AIDS Education Network which operates out of DiAna's Hair Ego, the beauty salon where a condom display is as common as a basket of curlers! DiANA'S HAIR EGO has been used by hundreds of educational and community organizations as a model for making a difference. More.

Divorce Iranian Style
A film by Kim Longinotto & Ziba Mir-Hosseini
With the barest of commentary, veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto shares this hilarious, tragic, stirring, fly-on-the-wall look at several weeks in an Iranian divorce court in a film showcasing the strength, ingenuity, and guile of Iranian women. More.
 

Eat the Kimono
A film by Claire Hunt and Kim Longinotto
A brilliant documentary about Hanayagi Genshu, a Japanese feminist and avant-garde dancer and performer who has spent her life defying her conservative culture’s contempt for independence and unconventionality. She denounced Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal, and dismissed death threats made against her by right-wing groups. “You mustn’t be eaten by the kimono,” says Genshu, “You must eat the kimono.” More.

The Films of Jane Campion
Films by Jane Campion
Three lively and humorous shorts from the acclaimed director Jane Campion (THE PIANO, HOLY SMOKE) are compiled here for the first time ever in a rare collection that includes the '60s coming of age tale
A Girl’s Own Story, a series of wry vignettes in Passionless Moments, and Cannes Palme d’Or winning Peel. More.

 

The Films of Maya Deren
Films by Maya Deren
Maya Deren's fascinating and beautiful films are masterpieces of their era and provide an important insight into the history of the avant-garde. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943, 14 minutes), AT LAND (1944, 14 minutes, Silent), A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA (1945, 3 minutes, Silent), RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946, 15 minutes, Silent), MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE (1948, 13 minutes), and THE VERY EYE OF THE NIGHT (1959, 15 minutes). More.

 

From the Back-Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond
A film by Dorothy Fadiman, Daniel Meyers, and Beth Seltzer
This acclaimed series provides a comprehensive look at abortion in the United States. Combining interviews and archival footage, it covers the moving story of the fight for, Supreme Court decision regarding, and current climate surrounding legalized abortion. Produced in association with KTEH-TV. More.

The Good Wife of Tokyo
A film by Claire Hunt and Kim Longinotto
Kazuko Hohki goes back to Tokyo with her band, the Frank Chickens, after living in England for 15 years. This wry and delightful film records her re-experiencing of Japan after a long absence, examining traditional attitudes to women and those of Kazuko’s friends who are trying to live differently. More.

Guerrillas in our Midst
A film by Amy Harrison
With their witty and creative tactics, the Guerrilla Girls have changed the face of political and cultural activism.  By exposing the perpetuated myth of the heroic male painter, these "art terrorists" have succeeded at putting racism and sexism on the agenda in the art-world since 1985.  Filmmaker Amy Harrison tells the story of this fascinating group and the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980s. More.

 

Hair Piece
A Film for Nappy-Headed People
A film by Ayoka Chenzira
An animated satire on the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. Lively tunes and witty narration accompany a quick-paced inventory of relaxers, gels and curlers. Used by hundreds of groups as diverse as museums, churches, hospitals and hair stylists. More.

Hidden Faces
A film by Claire Hunt & Kim Longinotto
In this fascinating portrayal of Egyptian women’s lives in Muslim society, Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris, returns home to interview the famed writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi, but soon becomes disillusioned with her subject. At home, the filmmaker’s encounter with her mother’s decision to return to the veil after 20 years and her cousins’ clitoridectomies raise El Saadawi’s feminist questions in real life, in this startling, unforgettable picture of contemporary women in the Arab world. More.

 

Home Away from Home
A Sankofa film directed by Maureen Blackwood
A bittersweet drama that unfolds almost without dialogue, this prize-winning short film conveys the isolation of immigrant women’s experiences. Miriam lives with her children near the airport where she works, far from her rural African roots. She constructs a beautiful mud hut in her garden, a space which takes alleviates her loneliness and teaches her daughter Fumi about her African side. More.

 

Honoring Our Voices
A film by Judi Jeffrey
Sharing their stories about recovery and healing, six Native women of different ages and backgrounds talk about the choices they have made to overcome the hardships of family violence and end the cycle of abuse and silence. Through the far-reaching changes in their lives, they reveal the rewards of empowering themselves and their families, as well as the strengths of counseling based in Native healing strategies and traditions. Directed by Judi Jeffrey (Metis) and produced by the Native Counselling Services of Alberta, this thought-provoking documentary is a valuable tool for education, prevention and intervention. More.

 

In My Father’s House
A film by Fatima Jebli Ouazzani
In this beautiful, poetic and deeply personal film, Moroccan filmmaker Fatima Jebli Ouazzani investigates the status accorded women in Islamic marriage customs and the continuing importance of virginity. Ouazzani left her father’s house in Morocco sixteen years ago to escape the constraints her culture and its traditions have put on women. She returns now to confront those traditions, her own family and herself.  More.

 

Jane: An Abortion Service
A film by Kate Kirtz & Nell Lundy
This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women’s history tells the story of “Jane,” the Chicago-based women’s health group that performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training. Jane members describe finding feminism and clients describe finding Jane through interviews, archival footage, and re-creations that bring to life the struggle for empowerment and influence in the ’60 of this unique group. More.

 

Knowing Her Place
A film by Indu Krishnan
A moving investigation of the cultural schizophrenia experienced by Vasu, an Indian woman who has spent most of her life in the U.S. Vasu's relationships with her mother and grandmother in India and her husband and teenage sons in New York, reveal profound conflicts between her traditional upbringing and her personal and professional aspirations. More.

 

The Lost Garden
The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché
A film by Marquise Lepage
A thoughtful tribute of clips, interviews, and archival resources reveal the life and times of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873-1968), arguably, the first narrative filmmaker in the world. Creating her first motion picture in France in the 1890s, Alice Guy-Blaché went on to pioneer her own successful production company in the US, producing and writing more than 700 films. More.

Margaret Sanger
A Public Nuisance
A film by Terese Svoboda and Steve Bull
MARGARET SANGER: A PUBLIC NUISANCE highlights Sanger's pioneering strategies of using media and popular culture to advance the cause of birth control. It tells the story of her arrest and trial, using actuality films, vaudeville, courtroom sketches and re-enactments, video effects and Sanger's own words. This witty and inventive documentary looks at how Sanger effectively changed public discussion of birth control from issues of morality to issues of women's health and economic well-being. Executive producers of the program are Barbara Abrash, Esther Katz and Laurence Hegarty. More.

Mary Lou Williams
Music on My Mind
A film by Joanne Burke
Pioneering Black American composer-arranger-pianist Mary Lou Williams is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of jazz. In this authoritative film, lively interviews with Williams, Dizzy Gillepsie and Buddy Tate interweave the musical and personal elements of her dramatic life. A spirited tribute to Williams’ indelible contribution to American culture, narrated by Roberta Flack More.

My Left Breast
A film by Gerry Rogers
“Every once in a while someone comes up with a film that sends us a clear signal that it's time to re-evaluate our lives. The film MY LEFT BREAST is not just for women living with breast cancer--it's for everyone.” – Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Incorporating a unique blend of wit, wisdom and resilience, filmmaker Gerry Rogers bravely recounts her story of breast cancer survival to share with the world that life, indeed, can continue with full force and vigor. Shortly after being diagnosed at age 42, Rogers began to document her ordeal on camera in an attempt to confront her own questions and fears about breast cancer. More.

My Feminism
A film by Dominique Cardona & Laurie Colbert
This excellent feminist primer debunks mass media’s demonization of feminism through incisive interviews with leading activists and intellectuals. It presents equality, gender, race, reproductive rights, sexualities, women’s health, abortion, parenting, breast cancer, poverty, and power as interlocking planks of the feminist global agenda.  More.

Navajo Talking Picture
A film by Arlene Bowman
Navajo filmmaker Arlene Bowman (SONG JOURNEY) charts a thoughtful personal journey to document the traditional ways of her grandmother living on the reservation. In spite of her grandmother’s forceful objections to this invasion of her privacy, Bowman persists in what ultimately emerges as a thought-provoking portrait that calls into question issues of “insider/outsider” status as the filmmaker co-opts a “white man’s” medium to capture the remnants of her cultural past. More.

Nice Colored Girls
A film by Tracey Moffatt
This stylistically daring film explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the “first encounter” between colonizers and native women with the attempts of modern urban Aboriginal women to reverse their fortunes. More.

Out of Phoenix Bridge
A film by Li Hong
This groundbreaking work from Li Hong, China’s first independent female documentarian, follows two years in the lives of four young women from the countryside who have come to Beijing for jobs. Although they work long hours as maids or street vendors and share a tiny room no bigger than a closet, they savor these years— between living as a daughter at home and returning to the village to marry —as probably the freest time of their lives. More.

Paradise Lost
A film by Ibtisam Salh Mara'ana
This thought-provoking film diary about Mid-East relations follows the Arab-Israeli director’s attempt to find her childhood hero, “bad-girl” Suuad and recreate her Mediterranean village’s lost history, amidst the modern cultural and political shifts brought on by Jewish settlements. This film brilliantly expresses the contradictions of modern womanhood and national identity in the Middle East.  More.

 

The Passion of Remembrance
A Sankofa film by Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien
The first film by Sankofa Film and Video, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE has gained classic status as a representation of the totality and diversity of Black experience. Within a dramatic framework the film gives a mosaic impression of the different dimensions of Black experience lived and imagined by a generation of filmmakers in the UK. As beautiful as it is eloquent, THE PASSION OF REMEMBRANCE is critical viewing for those interested in race, gender, history and cinema studies. More.

Praise House
A film by Julie Dash
PRAISE HOUSE combines elements of theater, dance and music based on the rhythms and rituals of Africa. Julie Dash, director of DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, collaborated with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder and choreographer of Urban Bush Women, to explore the source of creativity and its effect on three generations of African American women. PRAISE HOUSE shows the emotional prison so many people live in, even as it celebrates the persistence of belief and creativity, and the splendid legacies African Americans have preserved against all odds. More.

Real Indian
A film by Malinda Maynor
"Real Indian" is a lighthearted, very personal look at the meaning of cultural identity. As a Lumbee Indian, the filmmaker is constantly confronted with the fact that she doesn't fit any of society's stereotypes for Native Americans. Those stereotypes are imposed by both whites and other Indians, alienating the filmmaker from many of the conventional definitions of Native American identity. "Real Indian" is a unique look into the fascinating and complex world of Lumbee Indian culture and makes the viewer question perceptions of Native Americans, as well as the meaning of our own cultural identity. More.

 

Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself
A film by Yvonne Welbon
REMEMBERING WEI YI-FANG, REMEMEBERING MYSELF: An Autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker’s six-year experience as an African American woman in Taiwan after college graduation. The highly original film recounts Welbon’s discovery, through another language and culture, of being respected for who she is, without the constant of American racism, and how it helped her achieve self-knowledge. Linking this story with that of earlier women in Welbon’s family, the richly textured memoir blends dramatic sequences with documentary footage. More.

 

Riddles of the Sphinx
A film by Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen
In arguably one of the most visually stimulating, theoretically rigorous films to emerge from the 1970s, seminal feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey invokes the Oedipus story to probe representation in film in this landmark work fusing feminism and experimentation as it seeks to create a non-sexist film language. More.

 

Ripples of Change
Japanese Women’s Search for Self
A film by Nanako Kurihara
Inspired by the women’s liberation movement in America, Japanese director Nanako Kurihara traces the vast psychological and political distance Japanese feminists have had to travel in their fight for equality. “I didn’t really feel like a human being. We didn't even have a language, a vocabulary, for the kind of discourse that we needed to have,” one leading feminist recalls in this powerfully personal film. “I had to start with what I was—a woman.”  More.

Rule of Thumb: Order of Protection
A film by Jill Evans Petzall
A sensitive video which explores domestic violence through the perspective of women who have left abusive relationships. Five women from different backgrounds discuss their ordeals and the concrete steps they have taken to eradicate fear and violence from their daily lives. Supplemented by testimonies from a woman judge, a police officer and a former abuser, this empowering tape offers clear, concise instructions on obtaining an order of protection and other support services. More.

Search for Freedom
A film by Munizae Jahangir
SEARCH FOR FREEDOM traces the dramatic social and political history of Afghanistan from the 1920s to the present through the stories of four remarkable women: Princess Shafiqa Saroj, sister of the beloved progressive King Amanullah (1919-1929); Mairman Parveen, the first woman to sing on Afghan radio; Moshina, a war widow and survivor of a Taliban massacre; and Sohaila, an exiled medical student who ran underground schools for RAWA (Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women) during the Taliban regime. More.

 

Selbe
One Among Many
Produced by Safi Faye
This revealing documentary offers a rare view of daily life in West Africa. Shot in Senegal, SELBE focuses on the social role and economic responsibility of women in African society. Because men often leave their communities to earn money in the city, women are left with the sole responsibility for their families. One woman’s personal struggle reflects the broader issues facing many women in developing countries. Safi Faye, an ethnologist, is the most important woman director of documentaries in West Africa. More.
 

Seven Women-Seven Sins
Produced by Maxi Cohen
What constitutes a deadly sin today? Seven of the world’s best-known women directors produce their own version of celluloid sin in this omnibus film. Smart and fun, it is the perfect stylistic survey of seven innovative women directors, and a wonderful introduction to the world of women’s filmmaking. Includes Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). More.

ANGER - Montreal Festival du
       Nouveau Cinema, Best Short Film
ANGER - Tokyo Video Festival,
       Award of Special Distinction

She Wants to Talk to You
A film by Anita Chang
In October 1999 filmmaker Anita Chang befriended three 13-year-old girls – Monika Rasali, Sushma Sada and Vinita Shrestha – while living in Kathmandu, Nepal. Honestly presenting themselves in front of the camera, these girls share with the filmmaker their ideas on marriage, friendship and spirituality. Their recordings provide a complex and poignant framework for three Nepali women living in the U.S. to reflect on their own struggle, exile and quest for liberation. Through verite documentary, the film offers rare insight into the lives of girls and women from a society steeped in patriarchy, tradition and caste. More.

Sidet: Forced Exile
A film by Salem Mekuria
During the past two decades, more than two million refugees have left Ethiopia. Famine, poverty and political strife as well as the religious persecution caused by Eritrea’s annexation have already cost countless lives. Narrated by Salem Mekuria, an Ethiopian filmmaker in the US, this lucid documentary presents the life stories of three women refugees in neighboring Sudan. It traces the attempts of individual women to survive displacement, resettlement camps and ineffectual bureaucracy. An astute, politically sophisticated analysis of social and economic crisis from the perspective of Third World women. More.

Some Real Heat
A film by Stefanie Jordan
Armed with axes and heart, six female firefighters in San Francisco share what it’s like to work in one of the world’s most dangerous, male-dominated professions. Award-winning German filmmaker Stefanie Jordan follows these trail blazers as they fight both fires and gender bias and speak passionately about their fears, the weight of their tools, and the victims whose lives they attempt to save. More.

Something Like a War
A film by Deepa Dhanraj
This chilling examination of India’s family planning program, told from the point of view of the women who are its primary targets, traces the history of the program and the cynicism, corruption and brutality which characterize its implementation. This insightful film is an excellent resource for the study of international development and aid, population control, reproductive rights, health and women. More.

Sweet Power
Doces Poderes
A film by Lúcia Murat
During a tumultuous political campaign, veteran broadcast journalist Bia takes over as news director of a major television network. Brazilian filmmaker Lúcia Murat has drawn on her own experiences as a television journalist and human rights activist who was jailed for her political activities to create this stylish, sexy drama about moral conflicts between careerism, political expediency and personal and professional ideals. More.

Syvilla
They Dance to Her Drum
A film by Ayoka Chenzira
A portrait of Syvilla Fort focusing on the beauty of her choreography, the virtuosity of her dancing, and her role as teacher of a generation of African American dancers. More.

They Are Their Own Gifts
A film by Lucille Rhodes and Margaret Murphy
A three volume set of film portraits--Muriel Rukeyser, Alice Neel and Anna Sokolow. The poetry, painting, and dance of these three women is not artistic purism, but the product of a life conducted within social fabric. Through interviews, photographs and her own poetry readings, Muriel Rukeyser is shown as a civil rights and political activist. "This film shows beautifully how Rukeyser's courageous and independent life and her fierce and compassionate lyricism are forged to make the long poem that is her life." --Galen Williams, Executive Director, Poets and Writers. More.

Ticket of No Return
A film by Ulrike Ottinger
A haunting and gorgeous classic from legendary filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger (MADAM X, JOHANNA D’ARC OF MONGOLIA) about two women from disparate backgrounds, both on an alcohol-laden, self-destructive tour of a lonely Berlin. With Tabea Blumenschein, Magdalena Montezuma, Nina Hagen and Eddie Constantine. More.
 

Troubled Harvest
A film by Sharon Genasci and Dorothy Velasco
This award-winning documentary examines the lives of women migrant workers from Mexico and Central America as they work in grape, strawberry and cherry harvests in California and the Pacific Northwest. Interviews with women farm workers reveal the dangerous health effects of pesticides, the problems they encounter as working mothers of young children, and the destructive consequences of US immigration policies. More.

Uphill All the Way
A film by Khin May Lwin and Robert Nassau
Five troubled teenage girls, students at a rehabilitative high school, face the challenge of their lives: a 2,500-mile bicycle journey along the United States Continental Divide. If finished, the trek will be the first time in their lives the girls have set a goal and met it. Over the course of three months, they mature in ways that are thought provoking and unexpected. More.

Visions of the Spirit
A Portrait of Alice Walker
A film by Elena Featherston
This intimate and inspiring portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker explores the compassion, insight and strength that have made her one of the most admired women in the United States. In-depth conversations with the writer and members of her family examine the roots of her southern African American feminist consciousness, and feminist literary scholar Barbara Christian places Walker in the history of African American literature. More.

Voices Heard Sisters Unseen
A film by Grace Poore
VOICES HEARD SISTERS UNSEEN is a powerful and inspirational videotape showing how survivors of domestic violence are working to change the way the system treats battered women in search of justice and safety. Interviews, poetry, dance and music combine to present a feminist analysis about how courts, police and social services 're-victimize' battered women who are deaf, disabled, lesbians, prostitutes, HIV-positive and without official immigrant status. VOICES HEARD SISTERS UNSEEN is an important call for multi-issue activism and an integrated response to services for battered women. More.