CCSF is proud to present Production class in it’s best under colorful wing of our great teacher Dina Ciraulo . About 12 short Films will be screened or performed.
Join us for new wave of Filmmakers form Bay Aria.
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Mrs. Goundo’s Daughter
<p>Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the United States. But its not just because of the ethnic conflict and drought that has plagued her native Mali. Threatened with deportation, her two-year-old daughter Djenabou could be forced to undergo female genital cutting, a controversial rite of passage that dates back thousands of years and has been outlawed in 16 countries.</p>
<p>Using rarely cited grounds for political asylum, Goundo must convince an immigration judge that in Maliwhere more than 85 percent of women and girls experience genital cuttingshe will be unable to protect her daughter from well-intentioned relatives who believe all girls must have their external genitalia surgically removed.</p>
<p>The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the US National Committee for UNIFEM (UNIFEM/USNC) was launched in June of 2009. UNIFEM is the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and it works on women’s rights and development issues across the globe. We are committed to expanding support and raising funds within the United States for UNIFEM. Through our efforts we hope to encourage ourselves and others to become involved in advancing women’s rights around the world. If interested in learning more, please send us an email at <a href=”mailto:sanfranbayarea@unifem-usnc.org”>sanfranbayarea@unifem-usnc.org</a>. </p>
<p>About the Film Series: This monthly film series will look at women’s rights and development issues. Each month, a film that touches on one of the four themes of UNIFEM (The United Nations Development Fund for Women) will be selected. These four themes are: – enhancing women’s economic security and rights, – ending violence against women, – reducing the prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women and girls, and – advancing gender justice in democratic governance in stable and fragile states. After each film, a discussion will be held that focuses on the issue being highlighted and what local Bay Area organizations are doing to address that issue. </p> -
Odds and Ends
Odds and Ends screening series presents a hyper pixelated homegrown collection of experimental, animated and documentary film and video work made by lot’s of Pacific NW based artists and even a few of those damn Californians!
Including new and infrequently seen work by: Mallary Abel, Bryan Boyce, Nancy Jean Tucker, Thad Povey, Matt McCormick, Vanessa Renwick, Salise Hughes, Jon Behrens, Jeff Guay, Karl Lind, Jesse Malmed, Shalo-P and more!
More info at:
http://oddsandendspdx.blogspot.com/