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“Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth is a feature documentary film which tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in cotton fields of Putnam County, Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century.
Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, which has been transformed from a novel, to a Hollywood movie and latterly to a successful Broadway musical. This universal story of
triumph against all odds is not that different from Walker’s own story. Born in 1944, eighth child of sharecroppers, her early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and poverty
during some of the most turbulent years of profound social and political changes in North American history. Alice Walker’s inspiring journey is also a story of a country and a people at the fault line of historical changes. Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth offers audiences a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, a selfconfessed renegade and human rights activist.”
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VULVA 3.0
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014Showing the vulva scares off bears and lions, makes wheat grow higher, calms storm tides and demons fear it. The devil runs away. Showing the vulva can save the world.” C. R & U. Z
BEAUTY IN TRUTH: ALICE WALKER
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014“Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth is a feature documentary film which tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in cotton fields of Putnam County, Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century.
Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, which has been transformed from a novel, to a Hollywood movie and latterly to a successful Broadway musical. This universal story of
triumph against all odds is not that different from Walker’s own story. Born in 1944, eighth child of sharecroppers, her early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and poverty
during some of the most turbulent years of profound social and political changes in North American history. Alice Walker’s inspiring journey is also a story of a country and a people at the fault line of historical changes. Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth offers audiences a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, a selfconfessed renegade and human rights activist.”
“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.” A. Walker
ACTORAS DE CAMBIO
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014“Actoras de Cambio, which means “”Actresses for Change””, is a feminist collective in Guatemala which was founded to break the silence surrounding the rapes committed mainly against indigenous women during the 36 year-long civil war. It is estimated that soldiers – and sometimes even resistants – raped around 40,000 women during the armed conflict. It took fifteen years after the end of the war to begin to release the patriarchal straightjacket imposed on female victims, who until then hadn’t been able to talk about these crimes committed against them. This documentary shows the work accomplished by the survivors and the collective, who enabled women to come together in small local groups to tell their stories and hear those of others, and to understand this sexual violence in the context of men’s global domination over women. Building on these meetings, the groups of women developed their own healing methods, began to take action to achieve alternative forms of justice and organise festivals of memory, to fight against men’s impunity.”
LE KALAFA OU L’ADOPTION EN TERRE D’ISLAM
FILM RESUMES-EN 2014In Marocco, you cannot legally adopt a child, you can only take care of him/her. Filiation is very strict and can only be ‘natural’. A growing problem in a society that refuses to offer any solutions.
Noemie Marsily + Carl Roosens
REALISTRICE PRESENTE-EN 2014, REALISTRICE TOUS-EN 2014Noémie Marsily is born in 1983 in Belgium. She is painter, illustrator and filmmaker. She’s also part of the collective “Nos Restes” in Brussels, which is experimenting around books, narration, pictures, highlighting the diversity of practices.
Carl Roosens likes telling stories. He’s an illustrator. He founded ‘Nos Restes’ publishing in 2007, making fanzine books, exhibitions and concerts. He co-directed with Noémie Marsily a short animated film produced by “Zorobabel”, entitled “Poodle”.
He tells stories on music Noza, Emmanuel Coenen and Z, their first album was released in September 2009, at Humpty Dumpty Records. They made a lot of concerts in festival (Nuits du Botanique- Mars en chanson-Dour Festival-Massif Festival etc …)
Sofia Aissaoui
REALISTRICE PRESENTE-EN 2014, REALISTRICE TOUS-EN 2014Dyana Gaye
REALISTRICE PRESENTE ESPRIT-EN 2014, REALISTRICE TOUS-EN 2014Dyana Gaye is a French-Senegalese filmmaker born in Paris in 1975 . Straddling two cultures, French and Senegalese, Dyana Gaye chose cinema as a medium She is an actress, screenwriter, producer. However her main activity remains filmmaking.
A graduate of the University of Paris 8 – St Denis, she obtained in 1998 a MA in Film Studies. In 1999, she won the Louis Lumière – Villa Medicis Hors les Murs scholarship to study for her screenplay for A woman for Souleymane, which she achieved the following year. The film won many awards at international festivals. She worked for several years as a programmer for ACID (Agency for Independent Cinema for its Distribution).
Sarah Vanagt
REALISTRICE PRESENTE-EN 2014, REALISTRICE TOUS-EN 2014Born in 1976, Sarah Vanagt works and lives in Brussels. Between 1994 and 1998, she studied history at the universities of Antwerp, Sussex and Groningen. She then studied at the National Film and Television School (UK), in the documentary department.
Liz Miller
REALISTRICE PRESENTE ESPRIT-EN 2014, REALISTRICE TOUS-EN 2014Liz Miller is an award winning documentary maker interested in new approaches to community collaborations and media as a way to connect personal stories to larger social concerns. Liz is a professor in Communications Studies at Concordia University in Montreal and provides training to human rights and women’s organizations in media production, digital storytelling, and media advocacy.
Mathilde Dratwa
REALISTRICE PRESENTE-EN 2014, REALISTRICE TOUS-EN 2014Mathilde Dratwa has worked as an actor, writer and director in Belgium, France, England, Spain, Russia, Sri Lanka and the USA. She’s a co-leader of the FilmShop collective, a member of the Independent Film School’s writer-director lab and an alumna of Cambridge University and Drama Centre London. She teaches for the Shakespeare Society, the New Victory and the Roundabout Theatre.
“Escape from Garden Grove” was a play before it was a film. It was produced in seven theatre festivals in New York and in Norway, and selected for the Last Frontier Theater Conference in Alaska. It is published by Lazy Bee Scripts.
The film was a top ten finalist in the Sundance Channel Shorts Contest, and Victoria Blankenship won an award as Best Actress in a Supporting Role from the Barcelona Film Festival.