Women + Film VOICES Film Festival 2012
Genre/Subject: Womens Issues
The Denver Film Society proudly presents the 2nd annual Women+Film Voices Film Festival, a six day event from Tuesday March 6 through Sunday March 11, 2012 - centered around International Women's Day, on Thursday March 8. 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. This year the MacSpa Mobile Moviemaking event will expand into an on-line mobile film festival where participants from the community will have a chance to raise their own Voice and tell the inspiring story of someone they know.
Denver's Women + Film Voices festival a platform for change, evolution by Lisa Kennedy
Sponsored by:
Girls, Inc. of Metro Denver, Zonta Denver Club of Denver, Beyond Our Borders, Stephanie Bruno Wealth Advisor, The Shoppes at Castle Pines, The Institute For Women's Studies and Services of Metro State College of Denver, The Women's College of the Univ of Denver of DU, The Women's Foundation of Colorado, Tribal Girls, The Hive Book Club, Karen Moore, Fiona Baldwin, Sheila O' Brien, Mike McPhee, Novo Coffee, Whole Foods, The MacSpa, Megan Quicke, Flippinfilms.com, Glidetrack, olloclip, Studio Neat, ESC THUL, Colorado Public Radio
Films and Events in Program...
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USA
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2010
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78 min.
Director:
Holly Mosher
5pm Sat, March 10th
Director Holly Mosher In-Person
What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. BONSAI PEOPLE celebrates Yun...
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USA
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2012
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97 min.
Director:
Rory Kennedy
Opening Night Film 7pm Tues, March 6th with Reception to Follow
An intimate, revealing portrait of Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, directed by their youngest daughter who was born six months after his death, is a unique installment in the cultural history of this storied family.
Rory Kennedy ...
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USA
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2011
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103 min.
Director:
P. David Ebersole
MUST END Thursday, May 10th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Patty Schemel IN-PERSON Saturday, May 5th for a post-film discussion after the 7:15pm show
Digital presentation - HIT SO HARD follows the journey of Patty Schemel, the openly gay drummer of Courtney Love's seminal rock band ...
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USA
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2011
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100 min.
Director:
Bruce Beresford
MUST END Thursday, July 12th at the DenverFilmCenter/Colfax
Divorce makes you do crazy things. For Manhattan lawyer Diane (Catherine Keener), “crazy” means driving her teenaged son Jake (Nat Wolff) and adult daughter Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) to Woodstock to visit their grandmother Grace (Jane ...
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France
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2007
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95 min.
Director:
Vincent Paronnaud
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Marjane Satrapi
In conjunction with the Clyfford Still Museum’s Drawing into Painting/Painting into Drawing exhibition, the Denver Film Society and Clyfford Still Museum presents Film/Still: PERSEPOLIS. As with the evolution of sketch drawing on paper to the painted canvas, the genesis of the graphic novel to anima...
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USA
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2011
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38 min.
Director:
Sara Nesson
6pm Thurs, March 8th
Director Sara Nesson In-Person
POSTER GIRL is the story of Robynn Murray, an all-American high-school cheerleader turned “poster girl” for women in combat, distinguished by Army Magazine’s cover shot. Now home from Iraq, her tough-as-nails exterior begins to crack, leav...
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60 min.
VOICES Salon Series I - Women Making Movies
Saturday, March 10 at 4:00pm – 4:45pm
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
--Kathryn Bigelow
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60 min.
Voices Salon Series II – The Barracks Are a Battleground
Sunday, March 11 at 3:00pm – 3:45pm
This Salon is inspired by the issues brought to light by our Mystery Screening plus
Poster Girl and
Iraq, Paper, Scissors, in a discussion lead by Tiffani Lennon, Program Chair of Th...
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USA
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2011
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40 min.
Director:
Daniel Junge
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Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Oscar Winner for Best Documentary Short, 2012!
7pm Wed, March 7 at the L2 Events Center with reception to follow
Co-directors Daniel Junge & Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and producers Davis Coombe & Alison Greenberg in person. Q&A to follow the film....
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USA
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1926
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115 min.
Director:
Victor Sjöström
1pm Sat, March 10th
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz. Live piano accompaniment by Hank Troy
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne is punished for playing on the Sabbath day; but kindly minister Arthur Dimmesdale takes pity on her. The two fall in love, but their relationship cannot be: Hest...
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USA
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2010
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81 min.
Director:
Judy Chaikin
6pm Friday, March 9th
Producer Nancy Kissock In-Person
They wiggled, they jiggled, they wore low cut gowns and short shorts, they kow-towed to the club owners and smiled at the customers…and they did it all, just to play the music they loved.
THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, unt...
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United Kingdom
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1968
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113 min.
Director:
Joseph Losey
35mm presentation - One of John Waters' favorite films that he didn't direct is this hard to find over-the-top camp fest that was written by Tennessee Williams and stars Elizabeth Taylor at her most glamorous. The wealthy, self-absorbed eccentric Sissy Goforth (Taylor) has taken up residence ...
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USA
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2004
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97 min.
Director:
Mark S. Waters
35mm presentation - After growing up abroad, brainy teen Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) moves to Chicago and haphazardly joins her new high school's most powerful clique. But there's hell to pay when the ex-boyfriend of the clique's menacing leader (Rachel McAdams) shows interest in being Cady's ...
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2010
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67 min.
Director:
Nisha Ligon
4pm Thurs, March 8th
Director Nisha Long via Live Skype
Twiga Stars: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters is feature-length documentary by Nisha Ligon. It follows a season in the life of Tanzania's women's national football (i.e. soccer) team, affectionately nicknamed the Twiga Stars. Tanzani...
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USA
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2012
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93 min.
Mystery Screening
1pm Sunday March 11th...
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95 min.
7:30pm Sat, March 10th
In her feature-film debut, renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat offers an exquisitely crafted view of Iran in 1953, when a British- and American-backed coup removed the democratically elected government. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the ...
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United Kingdom
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2011
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129 min.
Director:
Andrea Arnold
Closing Night Film 7pm Sun, March 11th with Pre-Reception Beginning at 5:30pm. Sponsored by Three Lions Pub.
Andrea Arnold's WUTHERING HEIGHTS is an excitingly fresh and distinct take on the classic novel by Emily...
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