Events include a film festival, a writing workshop and a drinks and food fundraiser
The 14th annual festival features 49 films from 19 countries around the world, as well as 18 local filmmakers. The diverse films touch on every topic you can imagine, affecting women from every walk of life. The festival offers an opportunity to speak directly with some of the filmmakers and their subjects, as well as movers and shakers in the film industry. This year, it also includes two virtual reality experiences produced by the NFB.
Parker has been honoured by the United Nations Office of Human Rights as one of a dozen Women’s Human Rights Defenders.The UBC Faculty of Arts bills this as a festival celebrating gender equity, creative mobilization, and the art of positive change. It opened Mar. 7 with a dance party at the Museum of Anthropology featuring an all-female lineup of artists.
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