What were you doing at 8:30p tonight? Whatever it might have been, I hope it was by candle light in celebration of Earth Hour.
Entries from March 27th, 2010
Alice Guy Blaché: A first
March 27th, 2010 No Comments
With the recent big Oscar win for Kathryn Bigelow, the first female director to win in the Best Director category, I got to thinking about women’s role in film history. It’s not the first time I’ve thought about it. I remember back when someone first introduced me to Maya Deren. Ms. Deren’s contributions to creative expression [...]
Tags: Anne Bauchens · Benchmarking Women's Leadership · Blanche Sewell · Bombshell · Cecil B. DeMille · Cleopatra · D.W. Griffith · Golden Age of Cinema · Jean Harlow · Margaret Booth · MoMA · Mutiny on the Bounty · New York Women in Film and Television · NYWIFT · Solex · The Way We Were · The White House Project · The Wizard of Oz · To Save and Project · Whitney Museum of American Art · William Randolph Hearst · Women's Film Preservation Fund
Your records and rights
March 9th, 2010 No Comments
Today turned out to be my only day of opportunity to attend any of the NGO CSW/NY sessions. Therefore I didn’t necessarily get to the sessions I was most interested in, but attended those that sounded the most interesting to me that were scheduled for today. I sat in on two sessions and both were strong [...]
Tags: Beatrice Ntuba · birth records Africa · Committee on the Status of Women NY · Empowering through Recordation of Life's Milestones · Human Rights · Human Rights in Africa · international · Karen Richardson · Kim Longinotto · Lawyers Without Borders · Lawyers Without Borders board game · LWOB · Lyric Thompson · MDG · NGO CSW/NY · recordation · Sisters in Law · United Nations · United Nations Millennium Development Goals · Vera Ngassa · White House Office of Public Engagement · Women for Women International · women's issues Africa · women's rights · WWI