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Some Prefer Cake
Some Prefer Cake is a lesbian and feminist film festival in Bologna, Italy. It was established in 2009 to celebrate the richness of lesbian international film. History The festival was founded in 2006 by Luki Massa and Marta Bencich, who continued to direct and organize it, until 2014, when Massa became ill. She died in 2016. The Fuoricampo Lesbian Group, which had always been involved in the festival, reorganized with other key festival personnel to create the Luki Massa Association, and renewed the festival in 2017, which is now produced by the Comunicattive Association, and dedicated to Massa. Some Prefer Cake is a political endeavor, dedicated to fighting fascism, racism, repression and violence, and supporting those who fight and "boycott the neoliberal and neofundamentalist systems of patriarchal power". The festival considers itself part of this fight, giving visibility to women's and rebel non-conforming lesbian's stories, in the struggle against heteronormativity, illne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its Metropolitan City of Bologna, metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. It is known as the Fat City for its rich cuisine, and the Red City for its Spanish-style red tiled rooftops and, more recently, its leftist politics. It is also called the Learned City because it is home to the oldest University of Bologna, university in the world. Originally Etruscan, the city has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it ''Felsina''), then under the Celts as ''Bona'', later under the Romans (''Bonōnia''), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later ''signoria'', when it was among the List of largest European cities in history, largest Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reaching For The Moon (2013 Film)
''Reaching for the Moon'' ( pt, Flores Raras, "Rare Flowers") is a 2013 Brazilian biographical drama film, written by Julie Sayres and Matthew Chapman, directed by Bruno Barreto. The film is based on the book ''Flores Raras e Banalíssimas'' (in English, ''Rare and Commonplace Flowers''), by Carmem L. Oliveira. The film dramatizes the love story of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and the Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Set largely in Petrópolis between the years 1951 and 1967, the film tells the story of Bishop's passionate and often tumultuous life with Soares in Brazil. Cast * Glória Pires as Lota de Macedo Soares *Miranda Otto as Elizabeth Bishop *Tracy Middendorf as Mary Morse *Treat Williams as Robert Lowell *Marcello Airoldi as Carlos Lacerda *Lola Kirke as Margaret *Luciana Souza as Joana *Tânia Costa as Dindinha *Marianna Mac Nieven as Malu Release ''Reaching for the Moon'' had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, before screening at Trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of LGBT Film Festivals
An LGBT film festival or queer film festival is a specialized film festival that has an LGBTQ+ focus in its selection of films. LGBT film festivals often screen films that would struggle to find a mainstream audience and are often activist spaces for awareness-raising around LGBT rights as well as for community building among queer communities. The first LGBT-focused film festivals were organized in the United States as part of the awakening LGBT movement in the United States in the 1970s. The longest-running film festival with an LGBT focus is the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, which was established in 1977. Until the 1990s, LGBT film festivals were mostly informal screenings in Western countries. In the 1990s, NGOs were founded to create and promote queer-focused film festivals and festivals became more commercialized. Around this time, more queer-focused film festivals began to emerge, especially in East Asia and Eastern Europe. LGBT film festivals use different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Cinema
Women's cinema primarily describes cinematic works directed (and optionally produced too) by women filmmakers. The works themselves do not have to be stories specifically about women and the target audience can be varied. It is also a variety of topics bundled together to create the work of women in film. This can include women filling behind the scene roles such as director, cinematographer, writer, and producer while also addressing the stories of women and character development through screenplays (on the other hand, films made by men about women are instead called Woman's film). Renowned female directors include Alice Guy-Blaché, film pioneer and one of the first film directors, Agnès Varda, the first French New Wave director, Yulia Solntseva, the first woman to win the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival (1961), Lina Wertmüller, the first woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director (1977), Barbra Streisand, the first woman to win the Golden Globe Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Women's Film Festivals
Women's film festivals are film events geared to promote women in the film industry. Women’s film festivals began due to the lack of female voice within the film industry. To combat this hindrance, their own film festival was designed. Most women's film festivals only screen films directed, produced, or written by women. Some film festivals only invite women to attend. Sometimes, some events or awards are also geared towards men, if their work promotes women's career paths or visibility in the industry. See also * International Women's Film Festival (other) * List of film festivals * List of LGBT film festivals * List of LGBT-related films directed by women References External links Top Women's Film Festivals Raindance The Ten Best Female-Focused Film Festivals Film Daily Discover 100+ Women’s Film Festivals Worldwide Hollywomen Ten Women's Film Fesivals (2018), The Women's Direction {{DEFAULTSORT:Women's Film Festivals Lists of film festivals, Women Wome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Abod
Jennifer Abod (born 1946) is an American feminist activist, musician, journalist, and filmmaker. Education Jennifer Abod is the sister of feminist activist Susan Abod. She obtained her Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University, her Master of Science from Southern Connecticut State University, and her Ph.D. Intercultural Media Education from Union Institute and University. Feminist Work Abod was a co-founder and the singer of the New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Band ''Papa Don't Lay that Shit on Me'' from 1970 until 1976. The highly political band played, once, in front of the White House during a women's liberation march, and at Niantic State Prison, where Erica Huggins was imprisoned. The group also recorded with the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band. Her voice was described as "a deep blue voice she could have taken to Hollywood," by Naomi Weisstein. In 1972, ''Ms.'' published "Feminist Rock: No More Balls and Chains," which Abod contributed to, alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Passionate Pursuits Of Angela Bowen
''The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen'' is a 2016 biographical documentary film by Jennifer Abod and Mary Duprey, depicting the life of Angela Bowen. Bowen grew up in Boston during the Jim Crow era, and grew up to become a classical ballerina, a noted dance teacher, a black lesbian feminist activist, a writer and a professor at Cal State Long Beach. Synopsis The film looks into the life of Angela Bowen (1936–2018), who was a black lesbian feminist activist, a classical ballerina and renowned dance teacher, and ultimately a professor in the California State University system. Her activism was equally strong in all aspects of her life – she was as impassioned in her advocacy for the arts as she was for LGBTQI rights, which she championed as strongly as she did black women's rights. ''The Passionate Pursuits'' follows Bowen's life from her childhood as a black girl in inner-city Boston during the Jim Crow era across the decades, until she became a legendary figure in he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Era Ieri
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth. Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek ''aion'') and Sanskrit yuga. Etymology The word has been in use in English since 1615, and is derived from Late Latin ''aera'' "an era or epoch from which time is reckoned," probably identical to Latin ''æra'' "counters used for calculation," plural of ''æs'' "brass, money". The Latin word use in chronology seems to have begun in 5th century Visigothic Spain, where it appears in the ''History'' of Isidore of Seville, and in later texts. The Spanish era is calculated from 38 BC, Before Christ, perhaps because of a tax (cfr. indiction) levied in that year, or due to a miscalculation of the Battle of Actium, which occurred in 31 BC. Like epoch, "era" in English origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentina Pedicini
Valentina Zucco Pedicini (Brindisi, 6 April 1978 – Rome, 20 November 2020) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. She graduated at the ZeLIG International School of Documentary in 2010. Her documentary ''Dal profondo'' won the Solinas Award at the 2013 Rome Film Festival and was nominated as Best Documentary at the 2014 David di Donatello; it also received a special mention at the 2014 Nastri d'Argento The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani .... Her only full-length fiction movie ''Dove cadono le ombre'' premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival in the Venice Days (''Giornate degli autori'') section. Valentina Pedicini died on 20 November 2020 after a long illness. Filmography Full-length movies * ''Dove cadono le ombre'' (2017) Documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavela (film)
''Chavela'' is an American documentary film, directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi and released in 2017. The film is a portrait of Mexican singer and actress Chavela Vargas. The film premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 9, 2017, in the Panorama Dokumente program."Daresha Kyi’s ‘Chavela’ Taken by Latido Films" '' Variety'', February 9, 2017. It was picked up for international distribution by Latido Films. The film was a GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Documentary at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Gund
Catherine Gund (born Catherine Gund Saalfield; 1965) is an Emmy nominated and Oscar shortlisted producer, director, writer, and activist who founded Aubin Pictures in 1996. Gund's films have screened around the world in festivals, theaters, museums, and schools; on PBS, HBO, Paramount+/MTV Documentary Films, and the Discovery Channel, Sundance Channel, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. She is a voting member of AMPAS,The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Early life Catherine Gund was born in Geelong, Australia but grew up in Ohio. She is the daughter of philanthropist Agnes Gund and her first husband, Albrecht "Brec" Saalfield. She attended Brown University and received a dual degree in Art/Semiotics and Women's Studies, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Career Upon graduation, Gund moved to New York City to do the Whitney Independent Study Program and joined ACT UP. She co-founded DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activist Television), the AIDS activist video col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book Of Gabrielle
''The Book of Gabrielle'' is a 2016 comedy-drama film directed and starring by Lisa Gornick. The film also stars Anna Koval and Allan Corduner. Plot Book illustrator Gabrielle is writing an illustrated guidebook on sex called ''How To Do It''. At a book signing, she meets Saul, an established heterosexual male writer. She both loves and hates his work which has seeped into her secular Jewish life from childhood. The more Gabrielle tells him about her book the more he wants to know about her life, the relationship with her younger girlfriend, Olivia, and her determination to "stop using my penis in sex". As her book takes form, their friendship is tested as is Gabrielle's relationship with Olivia. The film muses on how we write, how we draw, and what influences us. Cast * Lisa Gornick: Gabrielle * Anna Koval: Olivia * Allan Corduner: Saul * Joni Kamen: Fiona * Juha Sorola: Aki * Ruth Lass: Jessica Production The film is part of a multi-platform production, consisting of a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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