The 2011 – 2012 season of ITVS Community Cinema presents several public engagement events as part of Women and Girls Lead, a major public media initiative to support and sustain a growing movement to empower women and girls, their communities, and future generations. Women and Girls Lead is spearheaded by ITVS, the largest provider of independent content to public television.
Starting with more than 50 documentary films by the world’s best independent filmmakers—and adding content from media makers and new partners along the way – Women and Girls Lead brings to life extraordinary leaders and citizens on the front lines of economic development, violence prevention, business and governance, education, and health.
Series partners and the following organizations are joining ITVS Community Cinema as community partners for the Women & Girls Lead films in DC this season:
The following is the Fall 2011 schedule of Women & Girls Lead Community Cinema in Washington, DC. Events take place at
• Busboys and Poets (BBP) – 2021 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009
• Washington DC Jewish Community Center (WDCJCC), 1529 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Additional events will be announced. For reservations, click on the links or call 202-939-0794.
WOMEN & GIRLS LEAD (Washington, DC)
Women, War & Peace
Created by Abigail E. Disney ❘ Pamela Hogan ❘ Gini Reticker
Preview of the mini-series episode: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Sunday, September 18 at 3 PM (WDCJCC) – Reservations
Sunday, September 25 at 5 PM (BPP) – Reservations
The Institute for Policy Studies and Faiths Act are community partners for the DC presentations of “Women, War & Peace.”
Women, War & Peace, a bold new five-part PBS mini-series, is the most comprehensive global media initiative ever mounted on the roles of women in peace and conflict.
Watch the full episode. See more Women War and Peace.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell is the astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on
the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and
won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003.
Peace Unveiled
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES FILM SERIES at Meridian International Center presents
Women, War & Peace – Created by Abigail E. Disney ❘ Pamela Hogan ❘ Gini Reticker
WHEN/WHERE: Wednesday, October 19 at 7 PM – Meridian International Center - 1630 Crescent Place, NW, Washington, DC 20009
Following the film is a discussion with J. Alexander Thier, Assistant to the Administrator and Director, Office of Afghanistan-Pakistan Affairs, USAID, moderated by Tamara Gould, Vice President, ITVS International.
Reservations REQUIRED: Email publicprograms@meridian.org
When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan organized to make sure hard-fought gains in women’s rights weren’t lost in peace deals made with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled, part of Abigail E. Disney, Pamela Hogan, and Gini Reticker’s Women, War & Peace series, follows the efforts of three of these women: a savvy parliamentarian who participated in writing the Afghan constitution, a former midwife and one of the last women’s rights advocates remaining in Kandahar, and a young activist from a traditional family in Kabul.
We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân
By Anne Makepeace
The Institute for Policy Studies is a community partner for the Washington DC presentations of We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân.
Sunday, November 13 at 5 PM (BBP) Registration
Sunday, November 20 at 3 PM (WDCJCC) Registration
The Wampanoag nation of southeastern Massachusetts ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag language, the first time a language with no Native speakers has been revived in this country. Spurred on by an indomitable linguist named Jessie Little Doe, the Wampanoag are bringing their language and their culture back. A film by Anne Makepeace.
Troop 1500
By Ellen Spiro
Saturday, December 17 at 5 PM (BBP)
Sunday, December 18 at 3 PM (WDCJCC)
Austin, Texas based Troop 1500 at the Hilltop Prison during filming. Credit: Ellen Spiro / ITVS
At Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas, a unique Girl Scout troop — Troop 1500 — unites daughters with mothers who are serving time for serious crimes, giving them a chance to rebuild their broken bonds. Troop 1500 follows five young Girl Scouts — sisters Caitlin inside the prison, the girls of Troop 1500 fall into the arms of the mothers they seldom see — Kenya, Melissa, Ida, and Susan — crying and laughing while pulling out report cards and pictures and passing along hellos from grandparents and absent brothers. Trailer.
Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock
By Sharon La Cruise
Saturday, January 21 at 5 PM (BBP)
Sunday, January 22 at 3 PM (WDCJCC)
As a black woman who was a feminist before the term was invented, Daisy Bates refused to accept her assigned place in society. Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock tells the story of her life and public support of nine black students who registered to attend the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, which culminated in a constitutional crisis — pitting a president against a governor and a community against itself. Unconventional, revolutionary, and egotistical, Daisy Bates reaped the rewards of instant fame, but paid dearly for it.
Strong!
By Julie Wyman
Sunday, May 6 at 3 PM (WDCJCC)
Sunday, May 13 at 5 PM (BBP)
A formidable figure, standing at 5’8″ and weighing over 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. Strong! chronicles her journey and the challenges this unusual elite athlete faces, exploring popular notions of power, strength, beauty, and health.
