To commemorate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Women Make Movies (WMM) is hosting a virtual film festival that highlights the new releases in our Transnational Feminist Film collection.
Women Make Movies provides services to filmmakers and educators, and distributes over 700 films by and about women worldwide. WMM has worked with ASWM to bring the best of women’s films to our events and film series.
Throughout March, festival attendees will receive free access to select films about women from around the globe. New films will be added each week and will be available for viewing at no cost for the duration of the festival (March 1 – March 31, 2020).
Our thanks to the women of WMM for bringing us together in this way to celebrate women’s lives this month and every month!
You may sign up here to enjoy the 2020 free films.
We are pleased to announce that internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Wendy Rule will perform on Friday evening of our 2020 conference.
“Hearing her perform live is an incredible experience that can easily be described as atmospheric, bewitching, and Otherworldly.”--Kelden Mercury
Wendy Rule, photo by Karen Kuehn
With the release of her latest double album ‘Persephone’, Wendy’s work continues to defy categorization. This exciting project is “a beautifully evocative retelling of the Ancient Greek myth of the Goddess Persephone’s descent into the Underworld and the ensuing grief of her mother Demeter, the Goddess of the Grain.”
Since her first album Zero was released in 1996, this visionary songstress has combined elements of gothic, folk, world, ambient and cabaret music, and crossed over into Pagan and New Age categories with her many mythological, esoteric, and ritual references. Renowned for her extraordinary voice and live shows that blur the line between music, ritual and theatre, Wendy has gained a loyal following in Australia, the USA, Europe and the UK. From the most intimate solo house concerts to large festival gigs, Wendy takes her audience on an otherworldly journey of depth and passion.
In 2014 Wendy relocated from her hometown of Melbourne, Australia to the USA, and is now living in the beautiful High Desert city of Santa Fe, New Mexico – allowing her an even stronger connection to her ever growing US fanbase, and providing daily access to the wild Nature that inspires her unique and transformational work.
“I follow a very eclectic, improvisational, ever-changing Magical path, focused on Nature and her cycles. I honour the Light and the Dark in equal measure. I’m in love with the Moon, and have honoured every Dark and Full Moon for decades.”
Learn more at www.wendyrule.com Or join her Patreon site to hear special monthly concerts based on the astrological sign of the full moon .
ASWM Scholar Salon 4 “La Frontierra Chingada:Mythic Motherhood on the Borderlands” with Emily Packer, Filmmaker and moderated by Natasha Redina. Recorded live online Wednesday, February 22, 2020. Feature Film screening and presentation by the filmmaker.
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ASWM Online Scholar Salon with Filmmaker Emily Packer
La Frontierra Chingada is a 2015 poetic non-fiction film about motherhood on the US-Mexico border. Mythic figures like Tonāntzin, the Virgin Guadalupe, la Llorona and la Chingada, manifest themselves at Friendship Park–a space where families on either side of la frontera can come together, but meet there under extreme conditions of surveillance. Guided in part by conversations with the filmmaker’s matrilineal family, the film concerns itself with relationships betweenwomen’s bodies, space, and the shared land and history in the San Diego-Tijuana region.
Scholar Salons with Emily Packer, Filmmaker
Emily Packer is an experimental non-fiction filmmaker with an interest in border culture and border theory. She says, “A huge part of my trepidation in making this film was about not wanting to presume to be able to make a relevant film about the border as an Anglo American filmmaker. But I think it’s incredibly important for white artists to make reflexive work about the border, given that we are implicated in its existence, and that our understanding and perspective shift is necessary to improve the situation (which includes death, dehumanization, and forced separation of family). At some point I gave myself permission to trust that I could make meaningful art about the border, and that the story I had to tell was important.”
See the one-hour film, available nowin ASWM’s member-only resource library, and join us for a conversation with Emily about crossing and transforming borders that separate us.The Salon discussion will be moderated by Natasha Redina, a filmmaker and ecotherapist who is a member of ASWM’s advisory board.
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