Belle
The 2014 Athena Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.
The New York Premiere of Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, screening on Thursday evening. Decoding Annie Parker, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and will be screened on Friday evening. Geraldine Ferraro: Paving The Way, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film, screening on Sunday evening.
The festival honors extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival.
The Book Thief
Among...
The 2014 Athena Film Festival has unveiled its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.
The New York Premiere of Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, screening on Thursday evening. Decoding Annie Parker, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and will be screened on Friday evening. Geraldine Ferraro: Paving The Way, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film, screening on Sunday evening.
The festival honors extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival.
The Book Thief
Among...
- 1/7/2014
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
There are times I forget who I’m supposed to be.
Rebel (2013) is a documentary through PBS recounting the story of Loreta Velazquez (Romi Dias), a woman who dressed as a man and fought in the Civil War. Velazquez was a Cuban immigrant to New Orleans where she was raised to be a woman of high-ish society. But, against her father’s wishes, she marries a white American soldier and has a family. When that family dies one by one, Velazquez takes up her dead husband’s uniform—a Confederate uniform—and joins the war as an officer. Various academics in history and Women’s Studies provide the historical context to the occasionally reenacted tale as provided in Velazquez’s memoir The Woman in Battle (1876).
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Rebel (2013) is a documentary through PBS recounting the story of Loreta Velazquez (Romi Dias), a woman who dressed as a man and fought in the Civil War. Velazquez was a Cuban immigrant to New Orleans where she was raised to be a woman of high-ish society. But, against her father’s wishes, she marries a white American soldier and has a family. When that family dies one by one, Velazquez takes up her dead husband’s uniform—a Confederate uniform—and joins the war as an officer. Various academics in history and Women’s Studies provide the historical context to the occasionally reenacted tale as provided in Velazquez’s memoir The Woman in Battle (1876).
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- 7/29/2013
- by Jason Ratigan
- JustPressPlay.net
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