August 29 wednesday
UTVS Film Festival
August 29 Wednesday: 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Film Festival exhibiting short and feature-length films relating to ending violence against women. Eve Ensler’s Until the Violence Stops will also be screened.
Location
Lexington Downtown Public Library
140 E. Main Street
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V-Day: Until the Violence Stops 1:00-2:15
Extraordinarily empowering and heartbreakingly funny, the Sundance favorite V-DAY: UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit Broadway solo show The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls.
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes 2:30-3:30
Filmmaker Byron Hurt, a life-long hip-hop fan and a former college quarterback turned activist, decided to make a film about the gender politics of hip-hop, the music and the culture that he grew up with. “The more I grew and the more I learned about sexism and violence and homophobia, the more those lyrics became unacceptable to me,” he says. “And I began to become more conflicted about the music that I loved.” The result is HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a riveting documentary that tackles issues of masculinity, sexism, violence and homophobia in today’s hip-hop culture.
Wrestling with Manhood 3:45-4:45
Sut Jhally & Jackson Katz draw the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity while showing how this form of “entertainment” is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence. As professional wrestling continues to grow in popularity with male audiences, Wrestling with Manhood not only addresses the questions of whether wrestling is "real or fake" or causes imitative violence, but also penetrates down to the deep-rooted social values that sustain and nourish it as a powerful cultural force at the dawn of the 21st century.
Fields of Mudan 5:00-5:10
A film by Stevo Chang
When Mudan, a frightened, young Asian girl, is forced into modern day slavery by the brutal child brothel owner, Madam Zhao, the only solace she finds is through the memory of her Mother and the promise that she would one day find Mudan and take her away to America: the place where dreams come true. Yet despite her hostile surroundings, Mudan finds sympathy, compassion, and friendship in an unexpected brothel girl, Faye. Through each other, they find the courage and the hope to live their lives as innocent, ordinary little girls. But even the bonds of friendship cannot stop the bleak future that awaits them as their time of innocence runs out.
In My Own Eyes (TBTN 2007) 5:30-5:40
UK student Lamin Swann highlights the efforts of the university community to address and endviolence against women on campus.
The Man Who Stole My Mother’s Face 5:45-6:45
A film by Cathy Henkel
Sexual assault remains the most hidden and the fastest growing crime in the world, and in South Africa the statistics are staggering. Two days before Christmas in 1988, Cathy Henkel’s 59 year-old mother Laura was sexually assaulted and brutally bashed in her home in Johannesburg, South Africa by a local white teenager. Although Laura identified her attacker from a school photograph, the man was never charged, and remained free. In an attempt to help her mother heal, filmmaker Cathy Henkel took matters into her own hands, returned to Johannesburg and confronted her mother's attackers. What begins as a powerful exploration about the unsolved case of Laura Henkel's rape becomes a gripping revelation about the healing process. THE MAN WHO STOLE MY MOTHER'S FACE is an intimate look at the long-term effects of rape and a profoundly moving account of one family's quest for truth.
Dreams of Jagondina 7:00-7:30
A film by Nora Malone
Even as a young girl, Suzana recognizes her own inner goodness and an “outside world” which differs dramatically from her own. She makes passionate attempts to end her family’s suffering—pleading with her mother to run far away with her, and plotting to kill her stepfather. Finally, on the verge of womanhood, she must make the most difficult decision of her life: to assume the role of victim in keeping with her family legacy, or to strike out on her own to create a life that is different. Startlingly beautiful imagery and haunting narration lyrically combine to create a powerful and mesmerizing story. Blurring the lines between fiction and documentary, the film offers a fresh, daring and rare cross-cultural perspective on the issue of family violence.
Love, Honour and Disobey 7:45-8:45
A film by Saeeda Khanum
