Hello. Icy readers we invite you to join us in screening for the first time at WIFF, HABANA EVA Winning the Best Picture Award at the New York International Latino Film Festival, Habana Eva is about Eva, a seamstress in a sweat shop who dreams of becoming a fashion designer and own a room to marry her longtime partner Angel, an indolent yet charming Islander. Her destiny changes when she meets Jorge a handsome Venezuelan, who visits Cuba with a more ambitious project than shooting photos for a book. Eva falls for him and she will have to decide whether to continue with her Cuban boyfriend or leave with the foreigner.
8:30 PM Fri, Apr 01
Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center
Hello icy readers, if you are in South Florida would like to invite you to join the Women’s International Film and Arts Festival tonight for Get Real Wise Women Speak!
7:00 PM Thursday, Mar 31 at Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center
screens with… UNDERESTIMATED | Michele Ervin 2009 deadbeat | Brenda Lee Lau 2010
Get Real! Wise Women Speak features extraordinary women who are using their time and talent to benefit the world. Nobel laureates, indigenous elders, artists, grandmothers, scientists, activists, and educators speak about their journey to the wise woman years and the inner fire that propels them to make the most of their wisdom and experience.
Women showcased in the feature-length documentary include: Jane Fonda, Della Reese, Marianne Williamson, former Essence Magazine editor Susan L. Taylor, poet Nikki Giovanni, oceanographer Sylvia Earle, Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo, and Nobel Laureate Jody Williams. Also featured are Indigenous elders Agnes Baker Pilgrim and Floredemayo (both of the Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers), author Jean Shinoda Bolen, artist Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Stanford University expert on aging Laura Carstensen, anthropologist Angeles Arrien, ambassador Swanee Hunt, Linda Leitch, peacemaker Vivian Castleberry and dance teacher Roberta Pollard.
The film creates a vivid mosaic, weaving together ancient archetypes, modern-day stories, vibrant interviews, impressionistic re-enactments, elegant graphics and an original score of Celtic and world-influenced music. The film follows the journey a woman embarks upon as she transitions to the wise woman role, and considers the impact of spirituality, wisdom, feminine beauty, the grandmother’s role, intimacy, aging and loss, and the vibrant and powerful way older women are contributing to society.
The film implores women: Celebrate your wisdom and experience and use it to make the world a better place! In the words of wise woman Tenzin Palmo, “If I don’t do it, who will?”
“HUMAN TRAFFICKING: CLOSER
THAN YOU THINK”
Lunch Film Screening and Panel
Discussion
12:00 PM
The Women’s International Film Festival’s mission is to
empower women’s artistic vision and to address issues that
affect women on a global level. This one hour open discussion
with experts on the subject matter will address how
widespread this global business is and what steps can be
taken to prevent and curtail it.
“Sold in America” | USA | 10 MIN
Sold In America immerses us into the world of sex trafficking
through the stories of three survivors who are today’s voices
against modern-day slavery. Maria’s is the earliest documented
case of sex trafficking in the country. LOCATION:
Hollywood Beach Culture & Community Center
1301 S Ocean Drive, Hollywood, FL 33020
t. 954.921.3600
Hello Icy readers. The Women’s International Film and Arts Festival (www.womensfilmfest.com) is giving today’s attendees of the Cambodian film Bare Hands Wooden Limbs a chance to win gifts from Akhun.org . 3 lucky winners will be chosen to receive gifts from Akhun. If you have tickets to watch the screening of the Cambodian film Bare Hands Wooden Limbs today, you are automatically entered for a raffle to win prizes from Akhun.
Ahkunmeans ‘thank you‘ in Khmer (Cambodian). Ahkun works with entrepreneurs who have received microloans to further their skills and build better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. They connect them to the global marketplace—creating sustainable businesses and closing the gap between microfinance lenders and borrowers, consumers and producers. By creating an online marketplace, buyers from all over the world can find a product or an entrepreneur they want to buy from and Ahkun will arrange the shipping.
Ahkun CONNECTS artisans and entrepreneurs to the global marketplace. They harness the power of the web to provide microloan recipients access to the global market, allowing them to sell outside of domestic markets and scale their enterprises. Ahkun goods are tangible results of life changing loans allowing individuals to continue artisan traditions and support themselves and their communities
Cambodian film Bare Hands Wooden Limbs will be screening at AMC Aventura at 7:00pm. To purchase tickets to the screening of Cambodian film Bare Hands Wooden Limbs log on to AKHUN TODAY!!
Join us in gearing up for one of the year’s exciting events rocking South Florida this March, The Women’s International Film Festival. The event is scheduled to begin March 30th 2011 and will kick off with the opening film “Latin Music USA: Divas and Superstars”, a film directed by the acclaimed, local, Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Adriana Bosch. This film focuses on the recent Latin Pop explosion and its influence across the music industry and popular culture. The film highlights the success of artists such as Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and Emilio and Gloria Estefan and their explosion, not only into the English-Language pop music market, but how the Latin wave has influenced style, youth and urban fusions to create Spanish Rap, Raggaeton, as well as Rock en Espanol.
The Women’s International Film Festival has a great mission in its effort to present and celebrate films, performance arts and other artistic expressions by women all over world while offering a platform in which they can explore, share and dialogue about issues concerning women through arts. This will be a celebrity-studded affair with surprise attendance from established and up coming stars.
To learn more about the Women’s International Film Festival and how you can support the mission please visit, http://www.womensfilmfest.com/
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Hello. Icy readers we invite you to join us in screening for the first time at WIFF, HABANA EVA Winning the Best Picture Award at the New York International Latino Film Festival, Habana Eva is about Eva, a seamstress in a sweat shop who dreams of becoming a fashion designer and own a room to marry her longtime partner Angel, an indolent yet charming Islander. Her destiny changes when she meets Jorge a handsome Venezuelan, who visits Cuba with a more ambitious project than shooting photos for a book. Eva falls for him and she will have to decide whether to continue with her Cuban boyfriend or leave with the foreigner.
