MUST WATCH: Miss Representation Chosen for Sundance Film Festival
Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new documentary, Miss Representation, has been selected to take part in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film, which addresses underrepresentation of women in public office, casts a spotlight on the effects and implications of sexism against women in media. As the film conveys, it will take another 500 years for women to achieve political parity if progress continues at the current rate. Name It. Change It. finds this statistic not only appalling, but grossly unacceptable, and applauds Siebel Newsom for the release of this important film. Miss Representation features:
- Condoleezza Rice, Former United States Secretary of State
- Dianne Feinstein, United States Senator
- Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder of United Farm Workers Union
- Geena Davis, Actor & Founder of Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
- Gloria Steinem, Feminist Organizer & Writer
- Jane Fonda, Actor & Activist
- Jean Kilbourne, EdD, Media Critic, Author & Lecturer
- Jennifer Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media
- Katie Couric, Broadcast Journalist
- Lisa Ling, Broadcast Journalist
- Margaret Cho, Comedienne, Actor & Activist
- Martha Lauzen, Executive Director of Center for the Study of Women in TV and Film
- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, United States Congress
- Pat Mitchell, President & CEO of The Paley Center for Media
- Rachel Maddow, Broadcast Journalist & Host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show; and
- Rosario Dawson, Actor & Activist, among many others.
The release of the film will activate a campaign to “re-envision women leaders in society” with proceeds going to women’s leadership programs at Girls, Inc., Girls for a Change, The Women’s Media Center, the International Museum of Women, the Step Up Women’s Network and The White House Project.
Published by Kate McCarthy on 12/10/2010