SAFEHS & SFWFF: DOC + Activism

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San Francisco Women's Film Festival
DOC + Activism

Opening Night Documentary and
Activism Shorts Program

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, April 9, 2008
Barrows 126, UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley, CA

$10 General Admission,
$8 Students/Seniors

Film Screening:
They Call Me Muslim by Diana Ferrerro
Doin it: Sex, Disability and Videotape by Salome Chasnoff and Susan Nussbaum
A Name I Call Myself by Sonali Gilati
Sold in America by Chelo Alvarez

Event Description
We live in an age where documentary films have the power to inform the masses on hot topic issues from global warming to human rights. Sex & Disability meet the Empowered Fe Fes (slang for Female), a group of young women with disabilities, as they hit the streets of Chicago engaging us in a dialogue about the truths behind sex and disability. Filmmaker Sonali Gulati takes us on a journey into India's call centers, where telemarketers take on Western names and accents to take calls from US, UK and Australia. What does it mean for women's freedom when a democratic country forbids the wearing of a veil? Filmmaker Diana Ferrero portrays the struggle of two women ? one in France and in Iran ? to express themselves freely. Chelo Alvarez joins us for a work-in-progress screening of her latest film Sold in America. This film explores a modern-day tale of sex slavery from real life stories of women sold in the United States at an early age and their struggle to find freedom. We are very honored to have survivor Maria Suarez in person to share her harrowing experience and learn what she is doing to help to free those still entrapped.

Sponsored by
Global Exchange
&
SAFEHS
Students & Artists
Fighting to
End Human Slavery

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