Film/Video 2006

Thursday, Sept. 28, 9 pm – Club SAW

Opening shorts by:
Ariel Lightningchild, Pixie Cram, Kim H, Kelly Beaton, and more.

Main Feature:
I Was A Teenage Feminist
Directed By: Therese Shechter
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I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST is a personal journey into a powerful, political movement that once sparked passionate response and social revolution, but now routinely evokes discomfort, indifference and even disdain. Armed with a video camera, an inquiring mind, and an irreverent sense of humor, filmmaker Therese Shechter crisscrosses both the continent and her own psyche in the hope of reconnecting to the power and sense of purpose that feminism gave her as a teenager in the 1970s.
As Therese searches for her own voice and place in the feminist movement and tries to come to terms with her identity as a woman today, she asks fundamental questions: How did feminism lose its voice? Does it even exist today and for that matter, what is feminism?
I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST features insightful commentary from Gloria Steinem and Ms. founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin, as well noted Third Wave activists Jennifer Baumgartner (co-author of Manifesta ) and Jennifer Pozner (of Women In Media & News.)