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VIRTUAL – Family of Woman Film Festival: “The Perfect Candidate”

July 7, 2021 by tcl-admin

Watch the film on LIVESTREAM.

This film will only be available for live viewing at the time scheduled.

Haifaa al-Monsour is Saudi Arabia’s first female director. She burst into world view with her first feature film, Wadjda, about a young Saudi girl who becomes a student of the Koran in order to win a bicycle in a contest. The Perfect Candidate is a much more complex and nuanced film, with a story and a cast of characters who are so engaging, a viewer is left wanting a sequel.

The film starts with a problem increasingly irritating Maryam, a young woman Saudi doctor: an unpaved, rutted and constantly flooded street leading to the doors of her clinic makes access next to impossible for patients and ambulances alike. Frustrated by the failure of her entreaties to the local authorities to fix the problem, Maryam decides to run for her local city council to get things done. She is assisted by her two sisters—the older an enthusiastic wedding player, and the younger a reluctant teenager—and also by the grandson of a crotchety old man he has brought to the hospital after an accident. The elderly gentleman insists upon being examined by a real (male) doctor, and remains a thorn in Maryam’s side until he admits that he voted for her. Maryam’s father is a professional musician, who is constantly on the road playing traditional music. He and his best friend, another musician, become an amusing Greek chorus as Maryam’s campaign progresses, both agreeing that nothing can be done about daughters.

Dramatic comedy, Saudi Arabia – 104 Minutes

 

    

About the Filmmaker

Haifaa-al-Mansour is regarded as one of Saudi Arabia’s most significant cinematic figures. She studied comparative literature at The American University in Cairo and completed a master’s degree from the University of Sydney. The success of her 2005 documentary, Women Without Shadows, influenced a new wave of Saudi filmmakers. Her debut feature, Wadjdaˆ, is the first fictional feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia. It received wide critical acclaim after its premiere at the 2012 Venice Film Festival and was selected as the first-ever Saudi Arabian entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. al-Mansour is the first artist from the Arabian Gulfregion to be invited to join the Academy of Motion Pictures in the USA.

VIRTUAL – Family of Woman Film Festival: “A Girl From Mogadishu”

July 7, 2021 by tcl-admin

**If you missed the screening on September 9, REGISTER HERE to view the event on demand**

Based on a true story, the dramatization follows Ifrah Ahmed’s perilous journey as a refugee. Forced into an abusive marriage as a teenager, Ifrah has fled from this bondage, only to be rejected by her family. In the midst of civil war, she makes her way back to her home in Mogadishu to try to attempt a reconciliation . Rejected by her father, her grandmother gives her some money and the telephone number of a relative in the U.S.

Bombs are falling amid complete chaos. Director Mary McGuckian portrays Ifrah’s escape from Mogadishu in frightening, documentary fashion: you are there, experiencing the terror Ifrah experiences. The viewer becomes firmly placed in Ifrah’s shoes as she makes a perilous journey to safety, with danger at every corner. Who can she trust to help her? At the edge of your seat each step of the way, deep insight is gained into the desperation and determination of refugees fleeing for their lives. It is a shock when Ifrah doesn’t wind up in the US, but she has luckily landed in a haven where she realizes the potential buried inside of her. Today, Ifrah is a leader in the campaign to end FGM (Female Genital Mutilation).

A recorded interview with Mary McGuckian and Ifrah Ahmed, moderated by Sarah Craven of the UNFPA, will air following the film.

Drama, Somalia, Republic of Ireland, (113 Minutes)

 

    

 

About the Filmmaker

McGuckian has been producing, writing and directing feature films independently for over twenty years. A Girl From Mogadishu is her twelfth film as an auteur – producer, writer and director. Born and raised in Northern Ireland during the ‘troubles’, McGuckian completed her education in the Republic of Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin, taking a degree in engineering. At the same time, she became deeply involved with “Trinity Players”, appearing in over 30 productions, as well as producing, designing and directing. Post graduation, she followed an autodidactic path in literature, theatre, acting and directing in London, Paris and Italy, including writing a number of avant-garde plays, the most acclaimed of which was a long-running stage adaption of Brian Merriman’s poem, The Midnight Corner. In the early 1990s, she set up her own company, Pembridge Productions, to develop and produce feature film projects. Active as a co-producer on many Irish feature films, the company also produced three pictures which McGuckian wrote and directed, Words Upon the Window Pane, This is the Sea, and Best. Other films include Man on the Train, with Donald Sutherland; The Bridge of San Luis Rey, with F Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chapin, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel; and The Price of Desire, a dramatization of the inception of 20th century architecture.

About Ifrah Ahmed

Ahmed left Mogadishu at the age of 17, and was granted refugee status in Ireland in 2006. Ahmed has established the United Youth of Ireland in 2010, an NGO for young immigrants, and the Ifrah Foundation, which is devoted to eliminating Female Genital Mutilation. Since 2016, she has been a Gender Advisor to the Prime Minister of Somalia.

The United Youth of Ireland provides support to young immigrants in their business, artistic and creative pursuits. Through the Ifrah Foundation, Ahmed continues to advocate for the eradication of FGM in her native Somalia. Her work includes raising awareness through producing media content to highlight the negative impact of FGM. In July 2018, in collaboration with the Global Media Campaign to end FGM, Ahmed produced a short documentary on the death of a 10-year-old girl due to complications resulting from FGM.

Additionally, Ahmed has been involved in organizing various events, workshops, fundraisers and seminars. Ifrah Foundation has partnered on impactful projects with international NGOs, and has formed strategic partnerships with governmental agencies on policy and legislation. Her focus over the past four years has been to deliver programs in Somalia providing evidence-based results that inform Ifrah Foundation’s proposed national action plan for the abandonment of FGM/C in Somalia.

Ahmed was awarded with a People of the Year Award in 2018 for her work.

Family of Woman Film Festival Begins

July 7, 2021 by tcl-admin

UPDATE

You can still watch the recorded Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture with Dr. Natalia Kanem by clicking here.

From September 11-18, you can watch A Girl From Mogadishu on demand. Register here to get the link.

All other films and events are being shown LIVE only.

 

Join The Community Library for the 2020 Family of Woman Film Festival, which will be presented in a fully virtual format.

All films will air on the Library’s Livestream page.

The Family of Woman Film Festival was founded in Sun Valley, Idaho, in 2008, by Friends of UNFPA Board Member, Peggy Elliott Goldwyn, to bring attention to the work of the United Nations Population Fund, which works in more than 150 countries to assure women and girls have access to reproductive health care, education and basic human rights. 

Five feature documentaries and dramas from around the world are presented each year, personalizing the status of women in different societies. In 2014, the annual keynote address was named the Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture for the Health and Dignity of Women, in honor of a local philanthropist deeply committed to working on behalf of women and children around the world. In 2019, Friends of UNFPA once again became the Festival’s beneficiary and partner.

For 2020, all films will be presented virtually, free to the public, September 9 through 13. The Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture for the Health and Dignity of Women will be presented virtually on September 8 at 6:00 PM.  

To learn more about the films, click below:

 

VIRTUAL – Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture for the Health and Dignity of Women

July 7, 2021 by tcl-admin

Watch the lecture anytime on LIVESTREAM

This year’s Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture will be keynoted by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, who will speak about the organization’s response to COVID-19 and its impact on women and girls globally. 

With many nations paralyzed by the pandemic, over 47 million women in 114 low and middle income countries may not be able to access modern contraceptives, resulting in over seven million unintended pregnancies. Childbirth has become less safe during the pandemic as well. Over 31 million additional cases of gender-based violence are expected with a six-month lockdown; for every three additional months, an additional 15 million cases are expected.

Working in more than 150 countries and territories, UNFPA is leveraging its widespread presence and strong record of collaboration with ministries of health, international and national non-governmental organizations and women’s and youth groups, among others, to keep health-care systems at risk of collapsing delivering services.

Vignettes of UNFPA actions to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 around the world will be shown during Dr. Kanem’s lecture, and she will answer questions following her remarks. To ensure that her talk addresses the issues most concerning our audience, she has asked that questions be submitted in advance. Further information regarding UNFPA’s work can be found at either unfpa.org or friendsofunfpa.org.

This lecture is presented in partnership with the Family of Woman Film Festival, running September 9-13 on The Community Library’s Livestream. All films and this lecture will be virtual only.

For more information, visit http://familyofwomanfilmfestival.org/sun-valley-films/. 

 

About the Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture

Each year the Festival presents a lecture by an internationally acclaimed advocate for women and girls. In 2014, it was named in honor of Bonni Curran, who was tragically killed in an accident in 2013.

Bonni was a physician, loving mother and wife, and not only a prominent local philanthropist, but also deeply committed to working on behalf of women and children around the world. She had been a supporter of the festival from its inception. In honoring her memory each year, we are reminded of the impact she had on our community and how much we miss her presence.

 

    

VIRTUAL – Family of Woman Film Festival: “Apache 8”

July 7, 2021 by tcl-admin

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This film will only be available for live viewing at the time scheduled.

For over 30 years, the all-female Apache 8 unit has protected their reservation from fire, as well as responding to wildfires across the nation. The group has earned the reputation of being fierce, loyal, dependable—and tougher than their male colleagues. Facing both gender bias and the problems that come with life on an impoverished reservation, the women are some of the country’s most elite firefighters. Director Sande Zeig combines archival footage and present-day interviews to focus primarily on four women from different generations of Apache 8 crew members, who speak tenderly, and often humorously, of hardship, loss, family, community and pride in their profession.

The film will be followed by a discussion with Sande Zeig and firefighter Katy Aday, who is featured in the film, moderated by Tracy Andrus, president of the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University.

Documentary, USA, 57 minutes

 

    

 

VIRTUAL – Family of Woman Film Festival: “Councilwoman”

July 7, 2021 by tcl-admin

Watch the film on LIVESTREAM.

This film will only be available for live viewing at the time scheduled.

Politicians aren’t usually immigrant grandmothers working full-time service jobs, but Carmen Castillo proves the exceptions when she wins a seat on the city council in Providence, Rhode Island. A Dominican immigrant, Carmen maintains her job cleaning hotel rooms as she takes on her new role in politics. 

Castillo must face skeptics who say she doesn’t have the education to govern corporate interests who take a stand against her fight for a city minimum wage of $15/hour, and a tough re-election against two contenders. In her own voice, Carmen Castillo takes the audience behind the scenes of her political campaign, her housekeeping work, and the interactions of her personal life. One moment, she is vacuuming a hotel room, then racing home to put on a suit before heading for city hall. We are with her every step of the way. 

A live interview with Carmen Castillo and director Margo Guernsey, moderated by Boise mayor Laura McLean, will follow the film.

Documentary, USA, 57 minutes

 

    

 

About the Filmmaker

Director Margo Guernsey began her film career in 2010 as a producer at WPBT2 in Miami. Councilwoman is her first feature documentary. Since 2012, she has worked freelance as a director and producer of industrial videos in the Boston area. For over 20 years, she has worked as a union organizer, non-profit development director, Spanish/English translator, and media instructor. She holds an MFA in Film from the University of Miami, a MA in History from UMass/Amherst, a BA in History from Brown University, and is a Tribeca/Camden/CNNFilms Retreat Alumni.

About Carmen Castillo

Castillo has been a member of the Providence City Council since 2010. She was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, and emigrated with her three daughters to the United States over 20 years ago. After arriving in Rhode Island, she settled in Ward 9 in Providence, which she represents on the council. While working at the West Hotel (now Omni), Castillo organized her fellow workers and helped form a union to garner higher wages, respect, and a better future for service employees and their families. Currently, she is a union steward and member of the executive board for UNITE HERE, Local 217. She has been active in her community for many years, advocating for the rights of immigrants, workers, and women, promoting neighborhood schools and fighting school closings, as well as focusing on improving city services and bringing more services to the war she represents.

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