Women Take The Reel Film Festival 2012
This annual film festival is a collaborative effort among Women's and Gender Studies departments involved in the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (as well as select institutions/universities aligned with its mission) that features films about issues relating to gender, race, sexuality, class and/or feminism.
The focus is on the intellectual investigation of these issues, so every film is accompanied by a Q&A and discussion with the film director, producer, local activists and practitioners, and/or faculty members from the host institution for each film.
All films are free and open to the public.
Orgasm INC. - the strange science of female pleasure
Directed by Liz Canner
Screening at MIT
Club Native: How Thick is Your Blood?
Directed by Tracey Deer
Screening at UMass Boston
Ella es Matador - (She is the Matador)
Directed by Gemma Cubero and Celeste Carrasco
Screening at MIT
You and Me (Wo men Lia)
Directed by Liwen Ma
Screening at Northeastern University
Women, Art Revolution
Directed by Lynn Hershmann-Lesson
Screening at MIT
LUNAFEST: short films by, for, about, Women
Screening at Boston College
The Price of Sex: An Investigation of Sex Trafficking
Directed by Mimi Chakarova
Screening at Boston College
Cultures of Resistance
Directed by Lara Lee
Screening at Lesley University
No Way Out but One
Directed by Garland Waller
Screening at Boston University
Miss Representation
Directed by Jennifer Siebal Newsom
Screenings at Brandeis University
The Hurt Locker
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Screening at MIT
Weapon of War
Directed by Ilse van Velzen & Femke van Velzen
Screening at MIT
WOMEN TAKE THE REEL is a FREE roaming film festival SPONSORED BY: MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies; the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies; Boston College Women's and Gender Studies Program; Boston University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; Brandeis University Women's and Gender Studies Program; Northeastern University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; Simmons College Department of Women's and Gender Studies; Tufts University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; UMass Boston Women's and Gender Studies Department; Emerson College Department of Visual and Media Arts; and Lesley University.