GENDER / WOMEN
The following films from the multiple Media That Matters Film Festival collections explore the issue of gender/women. For even more films on this issue, visit MediaRights.org.
A Girl Like Me
Color is more than skin deep for young African-American women struggling to define themselves.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
A Girl Named Kai
Through a stirring poetic mix of video and sound, Kai appeals to her traditional Taiwanese parents for acceptance in spite of her untraditional take on life and love.
Official selection of the fifth annual festival
As We Sleep
In 2000, 72% of Americans in living-assistance facilities were sexually abused. As We Sleep tells the story of Marcie and the tragic offense she suffered at the hands of a trusted caregiver.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Dedicated to My Family
Living in a teen shelter, Nicole has learned that family is where the heart is.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy
Sixty years have passed between Pearl Harbor and September 11th, but have things really changed? An interactive online documentary explores what it means to be an American with the face of the enemy.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Grace
Three women’s lives share an unwanted and violent thread.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
I'm Not a Boy
Julie Joyce is not a boy. As a transgendered youth, she just wants what all young people want – to have a positive space to live and grow.
Official selection of the seventh annual festival
In Transit
War may be over in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but many Congolese women continue to battle for their reproductive health.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
In the Morning
When a young Turkish woman is raped, there is nothing honorable about revenge.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Novela, Novela
A group of Nicaraguan activists produce a homegrown soap opera about issues like safe sex and domestic abuse.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Rebel
In this body-positive youth-produced film, the young women of the Lower East Side Girls Club take to the streets in celebration of their individuality and strength.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Seeds of Hope: South Africa
A group of women in a South African township learn how to sustain themselves and their children.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Silence Speaks
Domestic abuse, hate crimes, poverty, political persecution and war. Highly personal multimedia pieces tell the stories of survivors and witnesses of these many forms of violence.
Official selection of the third annual festival
Slip of the Tongue
“What’s your ethnic make up?” A young man makes a pass at a beautiful stranger and gets an eye-opening schooling on race and gender.
Official selection of the sixth annual festival
Struggling to Survive
Teenagers in eastern Kentucky turn their cameras on the living wage crisis in their community.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
Vision Test
Who would you feel most comfortable with as CEO of a Fortune 500 company? What begins as a routine eye exam turns into an examination of people’s subconscious attitudes towards race, gender and power.
Official selection of the third annual festival
We Were Humans
This multimedia animation asks what would happen if the billions of dollars of yearly military spending were directed towards education and world hunger.
Official selection of the third annual festival
iThemba
The Sinikithemba Choir turns stage into soapbox, singing and speaking for 5 million HIV+ South Africans.
Official selection of the fourth annual festival
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