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301) Paris Was A Woman
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A film portrait of the creative community of women writers, artists, photographers and editors (including Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas) who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris in the early decades of the 20th century. Utilizing groundbreaking research and newly discovered home movies, PARIS WAS A WOMAN re-creates the mood and flavor of this female artistic community in Paris during its most magical era. Winner of the Siegessäule...
302) Kings of Baxter
Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In this moving documentary, one of Australia’s leading theatre companies, Bell Shakespeare, enters one of the country’s largest juvenile justice centres. KINGS OF BAXTER explores the challenging and emotional journey of the young offenders and their teachers as they attempt to stage a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for their families and fellow inmates. Winner of the Festival Prize for Best Australian Documentary and the Audience Choice...
303) The People's Girls
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sexual harassment is a growing problem in Egypt, especially in Cairo. Through a series of interviews and social experiments, THE PEOPLE'S GIRLS takes a closer look at who is to blame, as well as how women are fighting back. THE PEOPLE'S GIRLS won Best Documentary Short at the **Arab Film Festival** and was a finalist at the **Censored Women's Film Festival**.
304) Reassemblage
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Women are the focus but not the object of Trinh T. Minh-ha’s influential first film, a complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, REASSEMBLAGE reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures. Official Selection at the **New York Film Festival**. *“Superbly crafted and visually exquisite, Reassemblage is also a work of film criticism—one...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Poet Emily Dickinson, pigeonholed as the strange recluse since her death, takes you on a journey through the seasons of her life amid 1800s New England. Narrated by Cynthia Nixon and featuring behind-the-scenes clips from the biopic *A Quiet Passion*.
Publisher
Cine Qua Non
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A classic, award winning coming-of-age story set in Lubbock, TX, 15 year old Shelby Knox at first sees eye-to-eye with the strict, traditional Christians in her community regarding sexuality's place in her high school. But when she joins a fight over abstinence-only sex education, and a Gay-Straight-Alliance is banned, she confronts her pastor, her parents, and the beliefs she was brought up with. Over the next three years, we join her sometimes funny,...
307) Purdah
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Hindi
Description
The inspiring story of a young Indian woman who trades her burka for dreams of playing on the Mumbai Senior Women’s Cricket Team and how the harsh realities for women in her country creates an unexpected outcome for her own family, ultimately shattering and fueling aspirations. Official Selection at the **CInequest Film Festival**. “*It’s like a real-life Bend It Like Beckham*” -***NPR (KQED)*** "*Uplifting and Empowering*" - **Film Threat**...
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jane", the Chicago-based women's health group who performed nearly 12,000 safe illegal abortions between 1969 and 1973 with no formal medical training. As Jane members describe finding feminism and clients describe finding Jane, archival footage and recreations mingle to depict how the repression of the early sixties and social movements of the late sixties...
309) Girls Can't Surf
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluoro colours, peroxide hair and radical male egos. GIRLS CAN’T SURF follows the journey of a band of renegade surfers who took on the male-dominated professional surfing world to achieve equality and change the sport forever.
310) Ms Represented
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after Australia elected its very first female parliamentarian, Annabel Crabb presents Ms Represented, a raw and honest account of politics from the female perspective.
311) Be Natural
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An energetic documentary about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché that is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation. Nominated for two awards at the **Cannes Film Festival.** "*By the end of "Be Natural," you won't only have a clear idea of who this remarkable woman was; you may well have acquired a new taste in old movies. Critic's Pick.*"...
312) Becoming Johanna
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, begins her transition and gets kicked out of her home and school, she finds a foster family who loves her and a supportive school principal who helps her graduate and thrive. How does it feel when your mom prays everyday for you to be someone else? That's the struggle Johanna, a 16 year old transgender Latina faces. At first her mom thinks she's confused, or joking, but as Johanna's transformation continues,...
313) Middlesex
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia--back before the
...314) Girl mans up
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to the pride movement, from its beginnings at the Stonewall Riots to the LGBTQ rights movement, the first pride parade, the creation of the rainbow flag, and legislation such as the Matthew Shephard Act and the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage
316) Tiger honor
Author
Series
Thousand worlds volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old nonbinary tiger spirit Sebin must decide where their loyalties lie when their traitorous uncle hijacks the battle cruiser that happens to be Sebin's first assignment in the Cadet Program.
317) None of the above
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kristen discovers that she is intersex and possesses male chromosomes, a diagnosis that is leaked to the whole school, throwing Kristin's entire identity into question.
319) The Founders
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1950, 13 amateur women golfers battled society, finances and sometimes even each other to create the first and longest running professional sports organization for women known as the LPGA. Featuring rare archival footage, historical reenactments and current day interviews with leading players and the four surviving founders of the LPGA: Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise suggs and Marlene Bauer Vossler. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells a story of love, marriage and a fight for equality. It chronicles two unlikely heroes, octogenarian Edie Windsor and her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, on their quest for justice: Edie had been forced to pay a huge estate tax bill upon the death of her spouse because the federal government denied federal benefits to same-sex couples. Deeply offended by this lack of recognition of her more than forty-year relationship with the love...
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