FILM: Miss Representation
Frank Baker hipped me to this doc, Miss Representation at Sundance...
From the Salt Lake Tribune:
Sundance documentary: Are you Miss Represented?
BY BEN FULTON
The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Jan 22 2011 06:36PM
Billions of hours of screen time have passed since the feminist revolution changed the world, yet women are still depicted in movies and on TV mostly as wives or girlfriends, with their sole ambition to find love.
Such limited media portrayals aren’t just shocking or limiting — they’re harming whole new generations of girls and their male counterparts, according to the slickly produced and hard-hitting new Sundance documentary “Miss Representation,” directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, an actor who is married to California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. The film premiered to a sold-out crowd on Saturday afternoon, followed by a panel featuring famous talking heads, including feminist icon and writer Gloria Steinem, and Mensa member and actor Geena Davis.
Steinem welcomed attendees, crowning them as members of the International Women’s Revolutionary Government in Exile. She cautioned that pointing out sexism in media is easy; getting heard or making a difference is much more difficult. “It’s as if women can’t be serious,” she said. “This goes so deep in our society, and you will be accused of being a ‘single-issue person.’ ”
Full review is here.
Official website is http://www.missrepresentation.org
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