27 episodes

Conversations with Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers from around the world.

Visionary Voices Diana Means

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Conversations with Women and Non-Binary Filmmakers from around the world.

    'Harvesting Our Tea' with Director Sheida Kiran

    'Harvesting Our Tea' with Director Sheida Kiran

    Diana Means interviews British-Turkish-Iranian documentary filmmaker and musician Sheida Kiran to talk about her documentary film 'Harvesting Our Tea' screening in the online Women Voices Now documentary film festival  March 1st - March 31st. 
    ABOUT SHEIDA KIRAN
    Sheida is a British-Turkish-Iranian documentary filmmaker and musician based in London. She conducted research on women and migration during her BSc Social Sciences studies at UCL. This led to her MA in Documentary Film at LCC and position as a production coordinator at award-winning charity Medical Aid Films, where she supports the production of health films for vulnerable women and children. Driven by her passion for ethnographic storytelling, her most recent work focuses on documenting women in agriculture and their rights to land ownership.

    ABOUT HARVESTING OUR TEA
    For centuries, women have picked tea on the steep slopes of Turkey's Black Sea region. It is grueling work, and much of what they earn has traditionally been handed to their husbands. ‘Harvesting Our Tea’ follows a new generation of women who are turning their backs on tea picking and the overall submissive culture. As these young women hope for change the older women fear for their way of life.

    ABOUT THE WOMEN’S VOICES NOW (WVN) FILM FESTIVAL AND HOW TO ATTEND
    The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival is an international women’s rights documentary film festival supporting emerging women filmmakers. Since 2011, we have received 1070+ film submissions from 85+ countries. See link below to purchase tickets through Eventbright.
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2023-womens-voices-now-film-festival-holding-ground-under-siege-tickets-529692373147
    Discounted tickets can be requested by emailing: events@womensvoicesnow.org. 
    Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast. 
    Editing by Otaku Media

    • 30 min
    Visionary Voices Film Festival Conversation with Executive Director Heidi Bash-Harod

    Visionary Voices Film Festival Conversation with Executive Director Heidi Bash-Harod

    Diana Means interviews Executive Director of Women Voices Now Heidi Basch-Harod about their documentary film festival that takes place online March 1st - March 31st. 
    ABOUT THE WOMEN’S VOICES NOW (WVN) FILM FESTIVAL
    The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival is an international women’s rights documentary film festival supporting emerging women filmmakers. Since 2011, we have received 1070+ film submissions from 85+ countries and awarded $118k in cash prizes to filmmakers.

    THIS YEAR’S THEME: Holding Ground Under Siege
    Around the world we see backlash against the progress made in the global women's rights movement. Women face new challenges precisely because of the advances made toward realizing their full human rights. Instead of pushing forward, is now a time to maintain our gains? Looking through the lenses of our filmmakers: Where should we focus our efforts in the coming years?

    HOW TO ATTEND
    Anyone with access to the internet can purchase a ticket for the Festival on Eventbrite for $36 here. Users will gain access to the competing films once they’ve purchased a ticket to the festival via Eventbrite. No one is turned away for lack of funds.  Discounted tickets can be requested by emailing: events@womensvoicesnow.org
    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2023-womens-voices-now-film-festival-holding-ground-under-siege-tickets-529692373147

    Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.
    Editing by Otaku Media

    • 20 min
    "Framing Agnes" with Co-Producer Brooke Sebold

    "Framing Agnes" with Co-Producer Brooke Sebold

    Diana Means interviews co-producer Brooke Sebold about the Sundance 2022 audience award winner film "Framing Agnes" as well as Grandma Bruce which Sebold wrote edited and directed.  
    About "Framing Agnes":
    Agnes is a transgender woman who participated in Harold Garfinkel’s gender health research at UCLA in the 1960s. Director Chase Joynt blends fiction and nonfiction to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed with an impressive lineup of trans stars who render, impressive reenactments.

    This film is Distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media
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    About "Grandma Bruce":
    is a magical short comedy about a queerdo (they/them) whose old car comes to life with the spirit of their judgmental Jewish grandmother, a backseat driver from the ever after.

    About the podcast:
    Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionaryvoicespodcast.com

    Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast. 

    Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world.For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival

    Editing by Otaku Media

    • 27 min
    The Seventh Circle with Director Alexandra Velasco

    The Seventh Circle with Director Alexandra Velasco

    Diana Means interviews Alexandra Velasco about her art-horror film "The Seventh Circle". 

    About the film
    The Seventh Circle features a frustrated man's descent into a horrific spiral of madness when he is confronted over and over again with his violent past. 

    About the podcast
    Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionary voicespodcast.com

    Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.


    Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival

    Editing by Otaku Media

    • 26 min
    "Basta" with Co-Director Lesley Elizondo

    "Basta" with Co-Director Lesley Elizondo

    Diana Means interviews Mexican American director of photography and cinematography Lesley Elizondo about her film "Basta" a documentary film based in Los Angeles California that exposes the normalization of sexual abuse in the janitorial industry.

    About the film
    Basta follows Veronica a 24 year old immigrant from El Salvador who was sexually assaulted while working as a night janitor in Los Angeles. Thanks to her resilience and strength, she did not stay silent and created a grassroots movement to change the janitorial industry and fight its normalization of sexual abuse in the workplace.

    About the Filmmakers Cecilia Albertini and Lesley Elizondo
    Cecilia Albertini is an Italian born-American based director and writer whose work focuses on socially relevant female-centric stories.

    Cecilia’s documentary “Francis Ford Coppola’s Live Cinema”, which followed the legendary director during the making of his latest Live Cinema workshop, was nominated for a American Association of Cinematographer’s Heritage Award. The episode that Cecilia directed for the show “Sanity” was nominated for a student Emmy Award in 2017.

    Lesley Elizondo is a Mexican American director of photography and cinematography educator born and raised in Los Angeles.

    In 2019, Lesley’s DP work with the activist group “Ya Basta” was featured in a week-long video installation on Sacramento and Washington DC’s capitol buildings. Her cinematography has also been featured in the Senorita Cinema Film Festival in Houston, the Pride Arts Center Film Festival in Chicago, the Stella Adler Academy Hollywood Short and Sweet Film Festival in LA, and the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase in St. Louis. On Youtube, “Pa Delante” has over 96 thousand views and “MacBeth” has over 3.6 thousand views.

    About the podcast
    Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionaryvoicespodcast.com

    Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.

    Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival

    Editing by Otaku Media

    • 23 min
    "Working Today Only For Tomorrow" with Director Vjosa Cerkinih

    "Working Today Only For Tomorrow" with Director Vjosa Cerkinih

    Diana Means interviews Lebanon director Vjosa Cerkinih about her film "Working Today Only For Tomorrow" a documentary film that exposes the inability of middle-aged women to find work in Kosovo. 
     About the film:
    "Working today, only for tomorrow" is a short documentary that shows the inability of middle-aged women to find work in Kosovo. This documentary shares the stories of middle-aged women who have been discriminated against in the labor market and are now forced to take on the risk of working in the black labor market as cleaners in private homes. 

    About the Director:
    Vjosa Çerkini has finished her Bachelor's and Master's studies in Journalism and Public Relations at the University of Prishtina. Vjosa is a journalist by profession. She started her career in Germany in 2015, she became part of the German television “Bayerischer Rundfunk” in Munich. Since 2019 she is working as a journalist for the German television “Deutsche Welle” and as a correspondent for “Perspektiva.plus” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2020 she started working as a freelance author for the German Press Agency in Hamburg. In 2020 she was part of the Federal Press Office within the German government in Berlin. She has also been published in other German media such as ZeitJung.de, Pur Magazine, etc. She is the winner of many journalistic scholarships in the Balkans for investigative research.

    About the podcast:
     Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionaryvoicespodcast.com

    Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.

    Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival
     
    Editing by Otaku Media

    • 22 min

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