‘Online Harassment Transcends Borders,’ Says Filmmaker Cynthia Lowen
A Q & A with Cynthia Lowen, filmmaker and director of NETIZENS, a documentary film about women and online harassment -sometimes called “revenge porn.”
“Ask For Jane”: Women Helping Women
“Ask For Jane” is based on the true story of a group of Chicago women who helped more than 11,000 others get safe abortions in the years just before Roe v. Wade. As shown in the film, it started with informal networking—the passing around from woman to woman of a phone number for an abortion doctor.
‘Women of the Venezuelan Chaos,’ A Portrait of Venezuela’s Crisis
“Women of the Venezuelan Chaos”, a 2017 documentary by filmmaker Margarita Cadenas, depicts the most catastrophic crisis in Venezuela’s modern history through the stories of five Venezuelan women from diverse socioeconomic and racial backgrounds.