The Women of Wonders Film Fest highlights and celebrates the lives and accomplishments of women around the world, and here in Hawai‘i. The film fest presents a selection of films directed by women, about women, for everybody. All the film are FREE and begin at 6:30 pm @ The ARTS at Marks Garage, 1159 Nu‘uanu Avenue. The screenings will be followed with Q&A with the directors! Flier here! Please post :)
March 4 | Patsy Mink Ahead of the Majority by Kimberlee Bassford | 6:30 @ The ARTS at Marks Garage
A documentary that follows the remarkable journey of Patsy Mink, an Asian American woman who, battling racism and sexism, redefined American politics.
Kimberlee Bassford will be in attendance for Q&A after the screening. For more information about the film, click here.
March 5 | Community Cinema | Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan | 6:30 @ The ARTS at Marks Garage
This film traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman and looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. This is part of Community Cinema presented in collaboration with Hawai‘i Peoples Fund.
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan will be in attendance for Q&A after the screening. For more information about the film, click here.
March 6 | Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza De Mayo by Susana Blaustein and Lourdes Portillo | 6:30 @ The ARTS at Marks Garage
As well as giving an understanding of Argentinean history in the ‘70s and ‘80s, Las Madres shows the empowerment of women in a society where women are expected to be silent. Las Madres provides a banner of hope in the international struggle for human rights.
Susana Blaustein will be in attendance via Skype for Q&A after the screening. To know more about the film, click here.
March 7 | Ella es el Matador by Gemma Cubero | 6:30 @ The ARTS at Marks Garage
For Spaniards—and for the world—nothing has expressed their country’s traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador. This film reveals the surprising history of the women who are gender pioneers by necessity, confronting both bull and social code.
Gemma Cubero will be in attendance for Q&A after the screening. For more information about the film, click here.
..and help us win, VOTE for Our Summer Reel Camps for Girls!
We’ve entered our Summer Reel Camps for Girls as a microproject in the Give for Youth Challenge and we need your vote! The top 20 youth-focused nonprofits with the most votes win a spot on GiveforYouth.org, a microgiving portal that helps nonprofits get new projects funded and off the ground. Give for Youth is a Microsoft YouthSpark program in partnership with GlobalGiving.
The 20 winning organizations will be featured on GiveforYouth.org and be eligible for matching donations from Microsoft, up to $100,000 across all organizations.
So you can see why we’re so excited, and why we need your support! Please take a second to help us out with your vote, and if you’re feeling extra helpful, share this message with your friends! We need all the votes we can get.
This event is organized by Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking in collaboration and kindly support of the the Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women, the Hawai‘i Women Lawyers, and the UH Diversity and Equity Initiative.
