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SUMMARY:The Shape of Water\: Narrated by Susan Sarandon - Film screening and discussion with Kum Kum Bhavnani
DESCRIPTION:FALL 2007 EVENT\nWomen's and Gender Studies Program at Vanderbilt University\nThe Shape of Water\: Narrated by Susan Sarandon - Film screening and discussion with feminist scholar and director-producer Kum Kum Bhavnani\nThe Shape of Water in Kum Kum's Words\:\n"Four years ago I realized I had to make The Shape of Water. I had done my research\, taught about the work done by women around the globe\, written about the women in scholarly articles yet I still felt in my heart that their stories should be known by a wider audience. Their stories are important. And it is important that their realities are understood as the realities of those who are creating a new world\, not those who are victims. That is why I have spent the last few years struggling to make this documentary."\n"My documentary weaves together the powerful stories of Khady\, Bilkusben\, Oraiza\, Dona Antonia\, Vandana and Gila who\, through candor and humor\, infuse their communities with a passion for change. The women are abandoning female genital mutilation (Senegal)\, tapping for rubber to protect the rainforest (Brazil)\, protecting the biodiversity of the planet (India) and opposing military occupations (Jerusalem)."\nThe Shape of Water\, narrated by the Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon\, has been extremely well-received by a global audience and has won many awards including\:\nReel Sisters of the Diaspora\nBest feature Documentary Award (Brooklyn\, March 2006)\nDC Independent Film Festival\nWorld Cinema Award (DC\, March 2006)\nSan Francisco Women's Film Festival\nBest Director\, Documentary\n2007 Hugo Television Awards Gold Plaque\nSpecial Achievement\: Music Score\n2007 Women's International Film Festival\, Miami\nBest Documentary\, USA\n2006 Queen's International Film Festival\nQueen's Spirit Award Best Documentary\nNational Association for Film and Digital Media Artists\n2006 INSIGHT Awards of Excellence\:\nFirst Feature Film - Direction\nCategory\: Original Score\nCategory\: Editing\nCategory\: Gender-Women\nCategory\: Human Rights\nCategory\: Post-Production\nCategory\: Research\nCategory\: Original Score\nAbout Kum Kum Bhavnani\:\nKum-Kum Bhavnani is a scholar\, writer\, and cultural critic who has worked periodically with broadcast media in the UK in the 1980s\, before coming to the USA in 1991. She created radio programs for her trade union organizations interviewing organizers such as Arthur Scargill (Leader\, Mineworkers Union).\nShe was also the initiator and billed as researcher for Resist and Survive (30 minutes\: directed by Dee Dee Glass and broadcast on Channel Four on 16th February 1983). That program followed three black women's groups in Manchester who worked on economic (employment co-operative)\, health (challenging white-defined notions of sickle cell anemia) and cultural/sexual (hair and sexuality) aspects of black women's daily lives in the UK.\nFor more information on the film\, please see\: http\://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/index.html [http\://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/index.html]\n
URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.theshapeofwatermovie.com/index.html
LOCATION:Buttrick Hall\, Room 101
CATEGORIES:academics,colloquiumslecturesmeetingssymposiums,films
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SEQUENCE:5
DTSTAMP:20091123T095623
CREATED:US-Central:20070828T150749
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ORGANIZER;CN=shubhra sharma:MAILTO:shubhra.sharma@vanderbilt.edu
DTSTART:US-Central:20071025T163000
DTEND:US-Central:20071025T193000
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