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Publisher
Hungry Eyes Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
SUBJECTS OF DESIRE explores the cultural shift in North American beauty standards towards embracing Black female aesthetics and features while exposing the deliberate and often dangerous portrayals of Black women in the media. From society’s new fixation on the ‘booty’, fuller lips, the dramatic rise of spray tanned skin, ethnic hairstyles, and athletic bodies, some argue that Black women are having a beauty moment. But others, primarily Black...
62) Sexy Baby
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
These days, sex doesn't just sell, it saturates our culture. In the age of runaway social media and "sexting," raunchy rap songs on pop radio and hardcore pornography at the click of a mouse—what's it like to be a woman? A girl? A teenage boy? Their parents? In this feature documentary, the directors follow a trio of characters to reveal the toll all this titillation is taking on America and forces viewers to get comfortable having the uncomfortable...
65) Singled
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
SINGLED [OUT] tells the story of five educated women in four corners of the world: Jules in Melbourne, Manu in Barcelona, Shu and Yang in Shanghai, and Melek in Istambul -they all travel solo in a world where pairing up is the norm. Together with the voices of some well-known experts in the areas of sociology, law and demography, the film unveils modern love in the era of choice, and is a journey to the heart of being a single woman today.
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Women are changing the face of today’s fastest growing industry – cannabis. Join filmmaker Windy Borman as she explores the movement to end marijuana prohibition, her own relationship to the plant, and the stereotypes surrounding it. Through a series of empowering and educational interviews with a broad diversity of women leading the industry today, Windy’s own assumptions are transformed as she discovers cannabis liberation intersects with...
68) Small Wonders
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
This inspirational documentary deservedly earned a 1995 Academy Award nomination. Divorced mother Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras taught music in the New York City school system until the budget ax eliminated her job. Dedicated to music and her students, she established a foundation and raised money to create her own violin program in three East Harlem schools. The film follows Guaspari-Tzavaras as she lugs her equipment from school to school, teaching...
69) Birth stories
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Birth stories goes beyond The face of birth documentary to share compelling birth stories from nine diverse women who choose different models of care for their pregnancies. Although each have different outcomes, all have empowering experiences. Featuring over 110 minutes of content, including previously unseen, extended-interview footage, this Australian-produced film is a must see for anyone expecting a baby, birth professionals or people who just...
70) Seeing red
Author
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
'Seeing Red' is the latest work from veteran avant-garde filmmaker Su Friedrich. In this, one of her most deeply personal films to date, Friedrich takes a look back at her evolution both as a woman and as an artist, tackling her own insecurities via several on-camera diary entries. While 'Seeing Red' is a film about the existential crises of the individual, it is also a film about what unites all humanity and what unites humanity with all the matter...
71) Soledad
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
SOLEDAD weaves live action and animation to tell the story of a woman from Central America who fled gang violence to seek asylum in the US.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Painter Wendy Sharpe is the recipient of numerous awards, grants and travelling scholarships including the Sulman Prize (1996), the Archibald Portrait Prize (1996), and the Portia Geach Memorial Prize (1995 & 2003). In 1998, Wendy was commissioned by the city of Sydney to paint a series of eight murals, on the life of swimmer Annette Kellerman, for the Cook and Philip Park Aquatic Centre in Sydney. And in 1999, she was commissioned by the Australian...
73) Maid in America
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
They clean other people’s homes and raise other families’ children — often leaving their own families behind. Maid in America is an intimate look into the lives of three Latina immigrants working as nannies and housekeepers in Los Angeles, three of the nearly 100,000 domestic workers living in that city today. These women’s stories vividly reveal how immigrants are redefining their roles, and underscores the vital role they play in many American...
Publisher
Divided Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Gretchen Carlson, who won a high profile victory with her opposition to the pervasive sexual harassment at Fox News, takes viewers to the halls of Congress to uncover an endemic culture of sexual harassment there held in place for decades by a deeply flawed system. Carlson meets the survivors stepping forward to tell their stories and the women senators and representatives leading the call for reform. She also works to enact legislation outlawing...
75) Flame
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The role of women in guerilla struggles and in post-liberation societies is depicted in a story of the women freedom fighters of the Zimbabwean liberation struggle. Flame is perhaps the most controversial film ever made in Africa --certainly the only one to be seized by the police during editing on the grounds it was subversive and pornographic. Ingrid Sinclair's moving tribute to women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle aroused the ire...
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
When Jocelyne, a seamstress in the northern French town of Arras, finds out that she won EU18 million in the lottery, she only has one fear: losing her modest way of life made up of simple pleasures which she cherishes more than anything. But fate can be obstinate, and by renouncing this fortune for too long, Jocelyne triggers a hurricane in her life that changes everything -- everything except her.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This beautifully crafted film is an in-depth look at the witch-hunts that swept through Europe just a few hundred years ago. False accusations and trials led to massive torture and burnings at the stake, and ultimately to the destruction of an organic way of life. The film advances the theory that widespread violence against women and the neglect of our environment today can be traced back to those times.
78) Beautiful
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Mona sacrifices everything, including family, in pursuit of a beauty pageant victory. Her friend Ruby helps her to an amazing degree.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Step back and view history through the stories of 36 women that changed the world with their ideas, their leadership, and their sacrifices. In unearthing these stories, you'll rediscover the remarkable contributions of women often lost to time and prejudice.
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