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"Theresa Goell started her career as an archaeologist with four strikes against her: she was a female, divorced, a Jew working with Muslims and hearing impaired. But Goell abandoned her comfortable lifestyle to pursue her passion at Nemrud Dagh, a site that had eluded archaeologists for centuries. Lubell's tender film brings this epic adventure to life through breathtaking archival footage, family photographs and Goell's letters and oral history"--Container....
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"Portrays the vision and strength of women surviving in the hotly contested Amazon rainforests. While international attention has focused on saving the rainforests, considerably less attention has been paid to the plight of the human inhabitants of Amazonia. Women are at the frontline of the struggle to save their environment and to rebuild a region suffering the effects of inappropriate development."--Distributor's website.
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This film examines the practice of female genital mutilation in Kenya and the pioneering African women who are bravely reversing the tradition. Women speak candidly about the practice and explain its cultural significance within Kenyan society. From gripping testimonials by young women who share the painful aftermath of their trauma to interviews with elderly matriarchs who stubbornly stand behind the practice, the filmmaker paints a complex portrait...
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(Producer) This documentary follows a group of women, all breast cancer activists who are fighting or have survived the disease, who are on a personal mission to unearth the causes of breast cancer. Incorporates interviews with prominent scientists, documentary footage from high cancer rate areas, and investigates women's personal battles to stay healthy.
Rachel's Daughters, the first feature length film to be made about the causes of breast cancer,...
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For two years the film follows the Kafkaesque struggles of Tamara, Michelle and Rachel--three young women doing all that is possible to obtain a divorce from the Israeli Rabbinical Courts, which hold that the husband must grant the divorce willingly. They are aided by a group of female orthodox rabbinical advocates.
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This documentary tells the story of the three Mississippi women in 1965, who walked into the US House of Representatives in Washington D.C. to seek their civil rights. These living legends give their firsthand testimony and capture a piece of history that is often overlooked in history books. Their achievements go beyond the cotton fields of Mississippi or even the coasts of America.
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Dramatizes the short story by Susan Glaspell about the isolation and oppression of a farmwoman in rural America in 1900. A farmer is found murdered at a remote farmhouse, and his wife is jailed as the prime suspect. A motive for the murder gradually comes to light as evidence of the physical and emotional abuse of the suspect emerges.