Category: Film
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“Selma” Director, Ava Duvernay
For her work on Selma (2014), DuVernay became the first black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and also the first black female director to have her film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Viola Davis Wins Grammy For Memoir Audiobook, “Finding Me”, Attains EGOT Status
During the Grammys preshow on Sunday, Viola Davis became the 18th member of the EGOT club, an acronym for those who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
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Golden Globes Awards: Women Who Made The Winning List!
There was no red carpet or media coverage to announce the winners of the 2022 Golden Globes; instead, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the announcement on Twitter late on a Sunday night.
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In El Hosaini’s “The Swimmers”, Olympian Yusra Mardini Show the Dangers Refugees Face
A journey filled with dangers of human trafficking, attempted rape, and threatening rides across the Mediterranean sea and roads across Europe, the film illuminates the effects of war and suffering of refugees.
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Finding Yourself on Television
Mediums of entertainment can be a powerful tool for enlightenment and propaganda. As seen in the survey Document Women put out, it is not uncommon to relate to and connect with characters in the stories we consume and the stories themselves.
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Enola Holmes 2 & The Match Girls Strike of 1888
The writers of the film have Enola solve an actual, real-life crime that took place in 19th century London and eventually led to the Match girls strike of 1888, the first industrial revolution by women for women.
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Mo Abudu’s ‘Fifty’ Looks, Sounds, and Feels Feminist, But How Feminist is it?
Fifty is a unique film that possesses the duality of performative feminism and actual feminism within it.
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Netflix’s Luckiest Girl Alive: On Sexual Trauma & True Healing
The cracks begin to form when the director of a true crime documentary persuades her to tell her own side of the story concerning an infamous, extremely school shooting that took place years ago at her prestigious preppy high school.
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Document Women Premieres Short Film at Sokoto Book and Arts Festival
This series follows the lives of four women in Nigeria’s northern “Arewa” community who excel in the non-traditional male-dominated sports industry.
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In “The One for Sarah”, Community plays a part in recovering from abuse
The One For Sarah explores the perils of finding love while recovering from abuse, the need to affirm one’s self and to honestly believe those affirmations and the importance of good people to help you through the process.