Women + Film Voices Film Festival
Genre/Subject: Womens Issues
The Denver Film Society proudly presents the Women+Film VOICES Film Festival, a six day event from March 8 through March 13, 2011, launching on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. Through documentaries, feature films, salons, and many in-person guests, VOICES will showcase thought-provoking, inspirational stories of women from around the world. Each film will have a VOICES host, either a woman personally involved with the film or a Denver community leader who will the film and lead a Q&A discussion afterwards. In addition, the VOICES Salon Series will feature inspirational and accomplished women from the Denver area leading discussions on relevant issues featured in the Festival.
Festival ticket packages are available for purchase:
- Cinephile Badge (All-Access Pass to the VOICES Film Festival)
- Four-pack of VOICES Festival tickets
If you would like to give to VOICES, please consider the following ticket packages:
- VOICES Patron Donor
- VOICES Supporter
- VOICES Friend
Donors & Sponsors: Fiona Baldwin, Book Babes, Carmen Casis, Jill Crow, Lynette Elliot, Tribal Girls
Films and Events in Program...
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60 min.
Women’s Salon Series at Henderson's Lounge
SALON [n] - a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation.
The Women’s Salon Series is an exciting program dedicated to deepening the ...
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60 min.
Saturday, March 12 from 4pm – 5pm, Henderson Lounge, open to the public.
This Salon is inspired by the common theme throughout much of the festival programming – which finds mothers speaking up and becoming the VOICE for change and empowerment. It starts with the hope of change for their ...
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60 min.
Sunday, March 13 from 3pm – 4pm, Henderson Lounge, open to the public
Deanne Pytlinski and Elissa Auther, discuss the issues brought to light in !Women Art Revolution, a documentary which sets the stage for an important film about the women’s art scene in the 60’s and 70’s. Matt Jenkins mo...
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USA
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2008
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100 min.
Director:
Tom Capello
With producer Scott Thigpen in-person.
Hanh is an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam, Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war, and Jacqueline works the slums of Bamako, Mali. Although the three live very different lives and come from vastly different worlds, they have one thing in common—power. Th...
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USA
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2008
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92 min.
Director:
Beth Murphy
With director Beth Murphy in person and reception to follow.
Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes. Rather than turning inwards, grief compels these women to focus on the country where the terrorists who to...
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USA
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2011
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115 min.
Director:
Cary Joji Fukunaga
With an introduction by Dana Crawford.
Celebrate the finale of VOICES with the Denver premiere of the new cinematic adaptation of
Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska
(Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender
(Inglourious Basterds), from acclaimed director Cary Joji Fu...
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Australia
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2010
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81 min.
Director:
Louise Alston
Join our sponsor SOL for a Cocktail Hour before the film from 8:15 - 9 PM in Henderson's Lounge!
With an introduction by Elaine Mariner, Executive Director of Colorado Council on the Arts
Jackie and Lucy are two twenty-something best friends who’ve made an art of not doing much. They’re s...
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USA
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2011
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85 min.
Director:
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Panel discussion and reception to follow
Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light stream in,
Miss Representation uncovers a glaring reality we live with every day but fail to see. It’s clear the mainstream media objectifies women, but what most people don’t realize is the magni...
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60 min.
With the advent of mobile devices like the iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad, the opportunity for people to easily make and share videos is unprecedented. We believe we can use these new tools as a means for empowerment, and change the way we view, create and share digital content. Join The MacSpa for a d...
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USA
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2010
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75 min.
Director:
Christophe Fauchere
With director Christophe Fauchere and producer Joyce Johnson in-person.
Mother breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our most pressing environmental, humanitarian, and social crises - population growth.
Today nearly 1 billion people still suffe...
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India
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2010
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96 min.
Director:
Kim Longinotto
Introduced by Caz Matthews.
Q&A to follow the film led by Author and co-founder of Dalit Freedom Network Nanci Ricks
“If you’re shy, you’ll die.” This is just one of the catchy aphorisms uttered by the formidable Sampat Pal Devi, leader of the Gulabi Gang (a.k.a. the “Pink Gang”), the centr...
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USA
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2010
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84 min.
Director:
Beth Davenport
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Elizabeth Mandel
Director Beth Davenport in-person.
Introduced by Academy Award-winner Donna Dewey.
In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo. In a country where ethnic violence has created seemingly irreparable rifts among Tuts...
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France
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2009
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96 min.
Director:
Caroline Bottaro
Friday March 11 at 9 PM with dessert reception to follow at Encore.
Introduced by Gabriela Vidal.
An inquisitive French Riviera hotel maid becomes entranced by a vacationing couple as they play chess on the hotel balcony. Tired of her humdrum existence, she quickly cultivates her curiosity ...
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USA
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2009
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100 min.
Director:
Simone Bitton
Introduced by Brit Withey.
In 2003, peace activist and International Solidarity Movement (ISM) member Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israeli army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003. A few weeks after her little reported death, an inquiry by Israeli military police concluded that Corrie di...
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USA
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2011
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100 min.
Director:
Sean McNamara
Wednesday March 9 at 7 and 7:30PM with actress AnnaSophia Robb and subject Bethany Hamilton in-person and reception to follow. SOLD OUT!
Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to...
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France
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2010
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103 min.
Director:
François Ozon
Presented by Argonaut Wine & Liquor
Introduced by Anthony Paul.
Set in 1977 in a provincial French town,
Potiche is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol, a submissive, housebound ‘trophy housewife’ (or “potiche,”) who steps in ...
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USA
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2010
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83 min.
Director:
Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Exclusive Engagement MUST END June 30 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital presentation - An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and...
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