A Film Festival By India

The G5A Film Society will present the New York Indian Film Festival (2016) India Chapter, screening five features, four documentaries and four shorts. Post an inaugural fun...

Kaleidoscope - Of Human Bondage

In India, where a large section of the population is vegetarian, the hullabaloo over a women refusing to eat meat would seem excessive, but in, South Korean writer Han Kang...

Feminisney: When Disney Meets Feminism

Disney’s animated theatrical feature films may be the most important battleground for gender/sexual equal representation in media.
If you spend time on social me...

Tangled, Toronto’s First Accessible Art Gallery For Disabled Artists, Is Bringing The Outsiders In

Outsider art – a term coined in 1972 by British art historian Roger Cardinal –was often displayed in the 1970s without the artist’s name, who was rarely e...

Life Through A Different Lens: Moscow's Jewish Film Festival

Tomorrow is opening night of the Moscow Jewish Film Festival, a cultural event offering Muscovites the chance to become acquainted with the world of Jewish professional cin...

At The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, A Lot Of The Humans Are Women

“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves,” the 1985 pop hit, would be an appropriately militant theme song for the new edition of the Human Rights Watch Film ...

Geena Davis To Produce Documentary About Hollywood Gender Inequality

Actor and campaigner says feature-length film will highlight data collected by her gender and media institute, along with testimonials from women in the industry Geena Davi...

Inequality Front-And-Center At Human Rights Watch Film Festival

Documentaries and narrative features illuminating women's rights, gender equality and LGBTQ issues, environmental activism, and the violence of urban gangs and drug cartels...

Why Hollywood Needs More Female Anti-Heroes

"Oh my god, the world is ruined: The women have guns."

This, according to Geena Davis, was a typical overblown reaction when Thelma & Louise hit ...