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Film Festival

The Ambassadors

Week 5: The programme The Ambassadors challenges heteronormative gender categories and heterosexuality as the social standard and explores a shift towards diversity as the norm.
PlanetHeroines
14th May 2020
Film Festival

Liberating The Mind

This programme is a proposal to liberate your mind, decolonising it by looking at opinions and assumptions, discrimination and empowerment. It starts and ends with a piece from Saturday Night Live (SNL), a US- American late-night live television sketch, comedy and variety show. Reese Witherspoon helps Leslie Jones to manoeuvre through White…
PlanetHeroines
6th May 2020
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Stay Safe

#StaySafe The Coronavirus pandemic is affecting us all in some shape or form, and as a small organisation, we don’t have substantial resources to support those whose lives and livelihoods are under threat.  But, as Angela Merkel once said: “A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.”  Here is our…
PlanetHeroines
22nd April 2020
Film Festival

Film Festival Prologue

Notes on Prologue At the Photographer's seems like the perfect film to start with: a start with photography and Alice Guy-Blaché (1873 –1968), the first woman ever to direct a film. (more of her work in later programmes). We move from a studio in Paris to one on Stradbroke Island in Australia…
PlanetHeroines
15th April 2020