The Vagina Monologues
Director: Eve Ensler
Year: 2002
Subject: Documentary
Running Time: 90 minutes
Distributor: HBO
Comments: Acclaimed writer/performer Eve Ensler is the star of this
innovative special that features some of the candid, funny, painful, yearning
insights of women talking about their no-longer-so-private part. Based on
Ensler's award-winning stage show of the same name, the special includes
all-new interviews and behind-the-scenes commentary added to the original
performance material. The end result is a daring and refreshingly liberating
experience filled with compassion, humor, intelligence and honesty that will
leave you thinking inside the box! CLOSED CAPTIONED
Venus of Mars
Director: Emily Goldberg
Year: 2003
Subject: Documentary
Running Time: 105 minutes
Distributor: Emily Goldberg/Media Gratification
Comments: The eye-catching transgender singer of a Minneapolis glam rock
band and her wife negotiate the frontiers of love and gender. On stage, wearing
a vinyl corset and stiletto boots, s/he's Venus, lead singer of the glam rock
band All The Pretty Horses. At home in Minneapolis with Lynette, her
wife of twenty years, s/he's Steve. Born male, Venus is transgender. S/he's "in
between" — taking female hormones, but not planning to have sexual reassignment
surgery. To some, s/he's a pioneer, courageously exploring a brave new world of
gender identity, free of categorization. To others, s/he's a freak. Venus
Of Mars is both the unique coming out story of Venus' gender-redefining
journey, and the truly contemporary love story of a couple weathering dramatic
changes in uncharted relationship territory.
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
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Comments: Extraordinarily empowering and heartbreakingly funny, the Sundance
favorite Until The Violence Stops chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit
off-Broadway solo show The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, an
international grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls. The
first of its kind, The Vagina Monologues has been widely recognized as
"a celebration of women's sexuality and a condemnation of its violation" (The
New York Times) and praised as "frank, humorous and moving" (Chicago Tribune).
In 2002, over eight hundred cities around the world have participated in V-Day
by staging benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues. From locales
as diverse as New York, the Phillippines and Kenya, director Abby Epstein's
Until The Violence Stops features emotionally charged interviews and
readings by everyday and celebrity women (including Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek,
Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda and Lisa Gay Hamilton), all of whom courageously
reveal their intimate experiences and bond together to break the silence that
surrounds abuse. More than just a group testimonial, Until The Violence
Stops is a moving celebration of community awareness that leaves us with
the hope that change can happen
The View From Olympus
Subject Interview
Artist Donna H. Lloyd, PhD.
Language English
Distributor Deltaran Publishing
Comments: An Excerpt from an interview with the Author of The View From
Olympus, Donna H. Lloyd,PhD. about: Abortion, Ancient Science,
Astrological Ages, Philosophy, Politics of Sex, Religion and Symbology, and
More.
Voices of Change
Director: Keith Clarkson, Silva Basmajian
Year: 1996
Subject: Documentary
Running Time: 92 minutes
Comments: An wide ranging examination both of individual activism and issues
facing women worldwide this inspiring five-part documentary offers invaluable
insights into the realities of international feminism. As women discuss their
work for native and worker's rights, educational equity, and the search for
free expression, they connect their activism to past and future familial and
cultural traditions.
Voices in Time
Director:
Year: 2006
Subject: Documentary
Running Time: 36 minutes
Distributor: Beyondmedia Education
Comments: Voices In Time is a window into the lives of women who
have served time in prison. In emotionally-charged interviews, women share
their experiences before, in, and after prison and examine the relationship
between the prison system and poor communities and communities of color. Also
features a life-sized artistic recreation of a prison cell, and performance of
material written by a former prisoner.
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