Tuesday, January 7, 2014

IL CASTELLO MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART MILAN : Plaia &Bardi @ Art LA




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Present


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Sam Francis, Acrylic on paper, Cm 57 x 78. 1976
 
Plaia & Bardi - New Traditions - New York and Il Castello Modern and Contemporary Art - Milan are pleased to announce joint participation in the 2014 LA ART SHOW at the Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles.

Exhibition will open on Wednesday January 15th at 7pm and will go on until Sunday January 19th 2014 at 5pm.

Please join us at booth 937. Daily access from 11am through 7pm.

Presenting artworks by Joan Miro', Damien Hirst, Alighiero Boetti, Jean Dubuffet, Sam Francis, Lucio Fontana, Robert Mapplethorpe, Enoc Perez, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Kellyann Burns, Dorothy M. Yoon, Zhou Yilun, Luo Xiaodong, Wang Guangyi, David Hockney, Liliana Porter and Frank Stella.


  
Enoc Perez, "Ibm Tower" Watercolor and marker on print Cm 25 x 35. Unique


PLAIA & BARDI Art and Design - New York
is a dealership devoted to the Arts of the XX Century.Plaia & Bardi focuses on interdisciplinary proposals of works of art and objects of design, through dedicated exhibitions and projects, in New York and worldwide. www.plaiabardi.com

Il Castello - Modern and Contemporary Art - Milan
Galleria Il Castello was founded in 1964 in Milan by Guido Conte.
Since the very beginning, the gallery focused on the avant-garde of the 60s.
At the end of the 80s Adriano and Marcello Conte, the founder's sons, took over the family business and are now Il Castello Modern and Contemporary Art .
In the years to follow the Gallery hosted a series of important monographic exhibitions of great masters like, among others, Piero Dorazio (2003), Joan MirĂ³ (2006), Lucio Fontana (2007), Giuseppe Capogrossi (2008 ), Victor Vasarely (2009) , Andy Warhol (2011), Keith Haring (2011) and Damien Hirst (2013). www.ilcastelloarte.it

 Detail of Tom Wesselmann, "Monica laying on pillow" 1986-1990. Laser Steel cut


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KASHYA HILDEBRAND GALLERY London, GALERIE KASHYA HILDEBRAND Zurich, Up coming exhibitions







Akiko Sato, Timeship, 2013, Rosa Portugallo marble, 37 x 60 x 37 cm

ZURICH
Vernissage - Wednesday, 8 January, 2014, 6-8pm
Akiko Sato
Touching Time
8 January - 22 February 2014
Exhibition Preview
Press Release
Image Sheet

Marking the Zurich gallery’s final exhibition, the Japanese sculptor Akiko Sato has dedicated the last twenty years to an in-depth exploration of the manifold notions and concepts of time. Her sculptures in marble, granite, alabaster or onyx give tangible forms to these abstract concepts. Viewing the sculptures from all sides and exploring their forms and surfaces by touch triggers forgotten memories and experiences. In her works a linear understanding of time is replaced by a completely open approach to past, present and future where apparent symmetries are broken by juxtapositions and intervals of time and space. The metamorphosis from sand to stone and eventually back to dust is a constant reminder of the ephemerality of time.




Marwan Sahmarani, Untitled, 2013, Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm

LONDON
Private Preview - Thursday, 9 January, 2014, 6-8pm
Marwan Sahmarani
Black Moon
10 January - 23 February 2014
Exhibition Preview
Press Release
Image Sheet 
In Black Moon, we see Sahmarani’s renewed focus on the medium of oil paint itself. "I've been working with oil for twenty years," says Sahmarani, "and it is only in the last two years that I feel I have really had a breakthrough." From simple compositions of defined lines and graphic figures, Sahmarani’s paintings have transformed. A looser brush stroke dissolves into a symphony of colour not unlike those found in his new home by the Mediterranean. Over the years, defined figures and human shapes have dissipated to make way for freer forms and a bolder application of colour. The smooth, flat surface on his canvas has given way to swathes of thick impasto, the texture of his painting taking physical form as a tangible being, with abstract patterns and heavy brush strokes revealing the images lying within.


Lisa Ross Unrevealed, Site 3 (Ladder on Horizon), 2009, archival pigment prints on cotton paper, 71 x 107 cm

LONDON – PROJECT SPACE
Private Preview - Thursday, 9 January, 2014, 6-8pm
Lisa Ross
Behind the Dunes
9 January – 31 January 2014
Exhibition Preview
Press Release
Image Sheet
Marking the first show in the gallery’s new Project Space, Behind the Dunes draws its inspiration from a 10-year project on which artist Lisa Ross worked in and around the Taklamakan Desert of China’s far northwest. Here Ross reveals a little known religious tradition in Xinjiang China with its desert shrines to Sufi saints and Muslim pilgrimage sites. Ross discovered wind-battered markers, personal prayers and devotional shrines composed of branches, ladders, cloth and amulets. Her photographs are unassuming and quiet; people are never present and the objects she captures – stone on sand, cloth on stone, the skeleton of a dried animal – have an incandescent glow, as if lit by another sun. Unveiled in Ross’s photographic works is the meditative and spiritual power of landscape, as well as a sense of the sacred with which it is imbued.

The Project Space will feature a selection of Ross’s photographs. Copies of her new book, Living Shrines of Uyghur China, will be available for signing by the artist on the weekend at Arthur Probsthain Bookstore, 41 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3PE. Please email for more details. info@kashyahildebrand.org .


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Talstrasse 58 8001 Zurich Switzerland
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Nall Art Association : Call to Young Artists

Nall Art Association
January 6, 2014
Call to Young Artists
Apprentice applications are currently being reviewed for the period of January through April in Fairhope, AL, USA and from April through September in France and Monaco. For any young artists who would like experience in Alabama or France/Monaco as an apprentice please send a resume to Nall at artistnall@gmail.com i am always eager to see new works and interview young talented artists.!!!

Nall Hollis
N.A.L.L. Art Association

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Call for Artists: BorderBody - Mixing Identities, Italy / Spain
 
Call for Artists: BorderBody - Mixing Identities, Italy / SpainInternational video-art, photography, installation and performing art festival
1st Deadline: January 08, 2014
2nd Deadline: January 20, 2014
 
International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting photo works, video/short films, installations and performing art works to include in the next 2014 exhibitions:
 
"BorderBody - Mixing Identities" international art festival of photography, video art, installation and performing art which will be held in Almeria (Spain), at MECA MediterrĂ¡neo Centro ArtĂ­stico, during the 7 and the 21 of February 2014 (video screening only), and in prestigious Palazzo Barone Ferrara in Bari (Italy), from the 13 to the 21 of February 2014.
 
BorderBody” exhibitions cycle is conceived as a diffused and nomadic festival in different places of the world. “Mixing Identities”, the second chapter of this 3-event cycle, is focused on the hybridization of social identities. In contemporary societies boundaries are getting more and more fleeting, and also the identity, that makes each person or place a recognizable entity, turns out fluid and multiple. Cultural, religious, ethnic borders become changeable too. This change, this mutation has allowed to cross the inside of the identities, creating new possible crossings, new blends. There is no more limit between an identity and the other one but it is possible to walk, to cross a passage and to find oneself halfway through it, in a non-place, in a non-identity.
 
The event is open to photography, video art, installation and performing art. Exhibition at MECA (Spain) is open to video art only.
 
Palazzo Barone Ferrara is a magnificent historic building of XIX century, symbol of importance and progress of the city. Located in the centre of Bari, is the headquarters and exhibition space of Banca Apulia bank.
 
MECA MediterrĂ¡neo Centro ArtĂ­stico, is one of the contemporary art galleries more active and consolidated in Spain.
 
The 1st deadline session for applications is January 08, 2014
 
To take part in the selection, send your artworks’ submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images (for video-art), pictures of your artworks via email to lucacurci@lucacurci.com or via mail to:
 
International ArtExpoCorso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari, Italy
 
The number of works you can submit is unlimited. The participation in the International Art Festival requires an entry fee (different for each deadline session) only for selected artworks. Participation open to: artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.
 
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Alex Gorman Fine Art : January List fo exhibitions.



J a n u a r y   E x h i b i t   A n n o u n c e m e n t s   f r o m   A l l a n   G o r m a n

News about a few upcoming events. Perhaps you'd like to attend?

  
 

Please come join me for

Revved Up and Ready to Rumble 
A solo show of recent motorcycle engine paintings
Azarian McCullough Art Gallery 

St Thomas Aquinas College  |  125 Route 340  |  Sparkill, NY  |  845-398-4100  

January 21 - February 26, 2014  

An artist's reception and lecture - February 5, 2014 - 4:30 pm  

For more information and directions visit: http://stacweb.stac.edu/~amag/ 

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I'm happy to announce that  

will be showing four of my works at 

Los Angeles Art Fair 
January 16-19, 2014

Naples Art, Antique & Jewelry Show 
February 7 -10, 2014 

Palm Beach Jewelry, Antique & Art Show 
February 15-18, 2014 

For more information about REHS GALLERIES and these shows visit: 

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My painting "Afternoon in the Steamtown Yards" 
was selected for inclusion in the biennial exhibit 

Mid Atlantic New Painting 2014 

at the

Ridderhoff Martin Gallery

University of Mary Washington | 1301 College Avenue  |  Fredericksburg VA 22401  |  540-654-1013

January 24 - February 28, 2014

A reception for the artists will be held on January 23 from 5- 7 pm

For more information and directions, visit:  
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Four works will be featured in the   

2013 Artists of the Month Exhibit 
Twelve artists will display four works each    

at the 

Arts Guild of New Jersey

1670 Irving Street  |  Rahway, NJ 07065  |  732-381-7511

February 16 - March 13, 2014

A reception for the artists will be held on February 16 from 1- 4 pm

For more information and directions, visit: 
  http://www.agnj.org/EXHIBITIONS/exhibits.htm
 
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As always, I thank you for your support and hope you can make one of these events
Watch your mail for more announcements and news soon 

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Ultra Violet: "SELFIE" exposition d' ULTRA VIOLET, vernissage samedi 18 janvier 2014

Vernissage samedi 18 janvier 2014 Ă  partir de 16h
en prĂ©sence de l’artiste.
Exposition jusqu’au 8 fĂ©vrier 2014




Selfie Blue Green


La Galerie Depardieu, "hors les murs" 
vous invite 18 avenue des fleurs 06000 Nice 
tĂ©l 0 493 96 40 96 - galerie.depardieu@orange.fr www.galerie-depardieu.com

(au fond de l'impasse, entre le Consulat de Tunisie et le CROUS) Parking Palmeira - Bus n° 38 av. des Fleurs - 3, 9, 10, 14, 22, rue Bottero - 7 Alsace Lorraine


THE FOURTH ANNUAL ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP OF NARRATIVE, DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILMS

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THE FOURTH ANNUAL ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP OF NARRATIVE, DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILMS 
FILMS INCLUDE BELLE, DECODING ANNIE PARKER, GERALDINE FERRARO: PAVING THE WAY, THE BOOK THIEF, SHORT TERM 12, IN A WORLD…, AMONG OTHERS 
The festival runs from February 6 - 9 
New York, NY (January 7, 2014) – The 2014 Athena Film Festival announces its lineup of narrative, documentary and short films.  The festival honors extraordinary women in the film industry and showcases films that address women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world.  Now in its fourth year, the festival runs from Thursday, February 6 through Sunday, February 9 on the Barnard College campus in Morningside Heights. Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival.
 The New York Premiere of BELLE, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and directed by Amma Asante, is the Athena Film Festival’s Opening Film, screening on Thursday evening.  DECODING ANNIE PARKER, starring Helen Hunt and Samantha Morton and directed by Steven Bernstein, is the festival’s Centerpiece Film, and will be screened on Friday evening.  GERALDINE FERRARO: PAVING THE WAY, directed by her daughter, Donna Zaccaro, is the festival’s Closing Film, screening on Sunday evening.
Among the feature films included in this year’s slate are: SHORT TERM 12, starring Brie Larsen and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, THE BOOK THIEF, starring Sophie NĂ©lisse and Emily Watson and directed by Brian Percival, and IN A WORLD..., written and directed by Lake Bell.  The documentary category includes ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH, directed by Pratibha Parmar, REGINA, directed by Diana GroĂ³, WHOOPI GOLDBERG PRESENTS MOMS MABLEY, directed by Whoopi Goldberg, THE OTHER SHORE, directed by Timothy Wheeler, and THE 99ERS, directed by Erin Leyden.   A wide variety of shorts will be featured including: THE RED PILL, directed by Academy Award nominee Lucy Walker, THE WORLDS OF BERNICE BING, directed by Madeleine Lim, MISS TODD, directed by Kristina Yee, and TINA FOR PRESIDENT, directed by Carmen Emmi.
“We are proud to announce such a diverse group of films, portraying women in leadership,” said Kathryn Kolbert, co-founder of the Festival and the Constance Hess Williams ’66 Director of the Athena Center. “Each year we strive to bring influential films to the festival that will entertain and inspire us all.”
“We are thrilled to welcome such talented filmmakers and a broad range of films to this year’s festival,” said Melissa Silverstein, co-founder and Artistic Director of the Festival and founder of Women and Hollywood. “We again present films full of talented female characters that exemplify the possibilities for a culture full of women leaders.”
As previously announced, Sherry Lansing, former Chair and CEO of Paramount Pictures and former President of 20th Century Fox, is the recipient of this year’s Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award.  Additional awardees include Callie Khouri, Academy Award winning screenwriter of Thelma and Louise, and creator of the series Nashville; Kasi Lemmons, actress, director and writer of Black Nativity, Talk to MeEve’s Bayou and The Caveman’s Valentine; and Keri Putnam, Executive Director of the Sundance Institute.  
The current lineup follows.  Additional screenings, panels and special events will be announced in the coming weeks.  Please visit http://www.athenafilmfestival.com for regular updates and to purchase tickets or passes.
Artemis Rising Foundation is the Founding Sponsor of the Festival. 
FEATURES

Belle – New York Premiere- Opening Film
Director: Amma Asante
Run Time: 105 minutes
Language: English
Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay, an 18th Century British naval officer. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, but her color prevents her from the traditions of noble social standing. Yet, Belle uses her presence and intelligence to help inform the thinking of her father figure, Lord Mansfield, as he deliberates the most pressing issue of the time - the abolition of slavery.

The Book Thief
Director: Brian Percival
Run Time: 131 minutes
Language: English
Based on the beloved bestselling book, The Book Thief tells the inspirational story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a foster family in World War II Germany.

Decoding Annie Parker – Centerpiece Film
Director: Steven Bernstein
Run Time: 91 minutes
Language: English
Decoding Annie Parker tells the true story of two very different women on seemingly similar paths towards ground-breaking discoveries.  Annie Parker a cancer survivor who was convinced that her illness and the illness of all the women in her family were connected and Dr. Mary-Claire King, a geneticist, who bucked the conventional wisdom about cancer research and discovered the genetic link in breast cancer and the BRCA1 gene.

Farah Goes Bang
Director: Meera Menon
Run Time: 90 minutes
Language: English
Awkward twenty-something Farah Mahtab hits the road with her buddies K.J. and Roopa to stump for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election, hoping the trip will also be her opportunity to lose her virginity. Crisscrossing the culturally divided nation at this decisive post-9/11 moment, these multicultural girls find themselves and their politics unwelcome in many parts of the country. They take inspiration from their friendship and press on in their campaign, even as Farah’s efforts on both political and sexual fronts are continuously thwarted.

Filly Brown
Directors: Youssef Delara & Michael D. Olmos
Run Time: 80 minutes
Language: English/Spanish
Filly Brown is an inspiring portrait of a young artist striving to seize her dreams without compromise.  Majo Tonorio, aka, “Filly Brown” is a young, raw hip-hop artist from Los Angeles who spits rhymes from the heart. With a mother in prison and a father struggling to provide for his daughters, Majo knows that a record contract could be her family’s ticket out. But when a record producer offers her a shot at stardom, she is suddenly faced with the prospect of losing who she is as an artist, as well as the friends who helped her reach the cusp of success.

The Hot Flashes
Director: Susan Seidelman
Run Time: 99 minutes
Language: English
An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school basketball champions, challenge the current high school state champs to a series of games to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as these marginalized women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, and in the process, become a national media sensation.

In A World…
Director: Lake Bell
Run Time: 93 minutes
Language: English
Carol Solomon is a struggling vocal coach. Propelled by the hubris of her father, Sam Sotto, the reigning king of movie-trailer voice-over artists, Carol musters the courage to pursue her secret aspiration to be a voice-over star. After landing her first voice-over gig, nabbing the job from industry bad boy Gustav Warner, the real trouble begins as Carol becomes entangled in a web of dysfunction, sexism, unmitigated ego, and pride. In A World. . . brings its viewer into an idiosyncratic world where one woman fights the odds and finally finds her voice.

Reaching For The Moon

Director: Bruno Barreto
Run Time: 118 minutes
Language: English & Portuguese
Based on a true story, Pulitzer Prize winning-poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Brazil and encounters the beguiling architect Lota de Macedo Soares. Initial hostilities make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop’s relationship to the world around her.

Short Term 12
Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Run Time: 96 minutes
Language: English
Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace, a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge. But her own difficult past – and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself – throws her life into unforeseen confusion, made all the sharper with the arrival of a new arrival at the facility: a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has a charged connection.

Tall as the Baobab Tree

Director: Jeremy Teicher
Run Time: 82 minutes
Language: Pulaar, French
Tall as the Baobab Tree poignantly depicts a family struggling to find its footing on the edge of the modern world. Coumba and her little sister Debo are the first to leave their family's remote African village, where meals are prepared over open fires and water is drawn from wells, to attend school in the bustling city. But when an accident suddenly threatens their family's survival, their father decides to sell 11-year-old Debo into an arranged marriage. Torn between loyalty to her family and her dreams for her and her sister’s future, Coumba hatches a secret plan to rescue her younger sister from a future she did not choose.

DOCUMENTARIES

The 99ers
Director: Erin Leyden
Run Time: 50 minutes
Language: English
The U.S. women's soccer team’s thrilling penalty-kick shootout victory against China that won the 1999 World Cup turned the world of women's sports upside down.  Using candid footage shot by the players throughout the tournament, The 99ers presents a unique portrait of the team that irrevocably changed women's athletics.

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Dir
e
ctor: Pratibha Parmar
Run Time: 81 minutes
Language: English
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth offers a penetrating look at the life and art of the celebrated writer, a self-confessed renegade, and human rights activist. It is a compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Putnam County, Georgia to her recognition as an award-winning writer.  Walker’s inspiring journey is also a story of a country and a people at the fault line of historical change.

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
(Sponsored by Whitewater Films)
Director: Grace Lee
Run Time: 82 minutes
Language: English
Grace Lee Boggs (BC ‘35) is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman living in Detroit. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the civil rights movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future.

Eufrosina’s Revolution
Director: Luciana Kaplan
Run Time: 96 minutes
Language: Spanish
From an indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico,  Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza is denied the right to become president of her community, because she is a woman. Eufrosina’s Revolution follows her fight for gender equality as she questions traditions and defies the chiefs.

Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way – Closing Film

Director: Donna Zaccaro
Run Time: 86 minutes
Language: English
Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way tells the story of this extraordinary trailblazer who is a role model for both women and men around the world. Filmmaker Donna Zaccaro creates a moving, powerful and oftentimes surprising portrait of her mother, whose run for Vice President changed the face of American politics forever.

Maidentrip
Director: Jillian Schlesinger
Run Time: 82 minutes
Language: English, Dutch with subtitles
15-year-old Laura Dekker sets out – camera in hand – in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person  to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, in search of freedom, adventure, and distant dreams.

Miss You Can Do It
(In partnership with The Loreen Arbus Foundation)
Director: Ron Davis
Run Time: 80 minutes
Language: English
One weekend a year, the Illinois town of Kewanee turns into a place of celebration and delight, as the annual Miss You Can Do It pageant spotlights young girls with disabilities from around the country. The first Miss USA contestant to compete with a disability, Abbey Curran started the pageant in 2004 to offer girls the opportunity to be celebrated for their inner beauty and spirit.

The Other Shore

Director: Timothy Wheeler
Run Time: 100 minutes
Language: English
Follow world record holder and legendary swimmer Diana Nyad, as she comes out of a thirty-year retirement to re-attempt an elusive dream: swimming 103 miles non-stop from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage.  Tropical storms, sharks, venomous jellyfish, and one of the strongest ocean currents in the world, all prove to be life-threatening realities in this epic journey.

Rebel
Director: MarĂ­a Agui Carter
Run Time: 75 minutes
Language: English
Shrouded in mystery and long the subject of debate, the amazing story of Loreta Velazquez, Confederate soldier turned Union spy, is one of the Civil War’s most gripping, yet forgotten narratives. Who was she?  Why did she fight?  And what made her so dangerous that she has been virtually erased from history?

Regina
Director: Diana GroĂ³
Run Time: 64 minutes
Language: Hungarian/English
Diana GroĂ³’s poetic documentary tells the story of Regina Jonas (1902-1944), the first properly ordained female rabbi in the world. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddler, she was ordained in 1935. Jonas’ sermons and unparalleled dedication brought encouragement to the persecuted German Jews during the Nazi era. She was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Narrated by Rachel Weisz.

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley
(Sponsored by the Harnisch Foundation)
Director: Whoopi Goldberg
Run Time: 71 minutes
Language: English
Breaking racial and gender stereotypes, the African-American stand-up comedienne Jackie “Moms” Mabley has long been an icon in the comedy world. Once billed as “the funniest woman in the world,” she performed on stage and in television and film until her death in 1975. The film explores Mabley’s legacy through recently unearthed photography and rediscovered performance footage.

SHORTS


#SlutWalkNYC
Director: Therese Shechter
Run Time: 5 minutes
Language: English
The 2011 SlutWalk march was one of the most unique feminist actions in New York history – one piece of a grassroots global movement that is both empowering and controversial.

30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)
Director: Anna Cady
Director of Animation: Em Cooper
Run Time: 11 minutes
Language: English
Amid a violent war that has seen over 50,000 people killed, three women wage a battle for women’s representation in Sierra Leone  in this unique oil-painted animated film. From diverse religious, ethnic and political backgrounds, they share stories of secret societies, corruption, violence and sexual harassment within the world of politics.

A Kiss For Gabriela
Director: Laura Murray
Run Time: 29 minutes
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
This film tells the compelling story of Gabriela Leite, the first sex worker to run for Congress in Brazil as she faces 822 opponents and challenges a male dominated political system. Can a sex worker, activist, and cultural icon beat the odds and win the election?

Assembly
Director: Jenn Strom
Run Time: 5 minutes
Language: English
Created by painting and drawing on sheets of glass, which were photographed and digitally composed, this film’s experimental animations contain fragments of archival footage: women walking in chains, protesting with placards, speaking at podiums. We hear bursts of words and a percussive hum—until a message is finally revealed.

Frost
Director: Jeremy Ball
Run Time: 14 minutes
Language: English
A y
o
ung arctic hunter embarks on a perilous search for food for her family. Crossing the sacred boundary of her people’s ancestral hunting grounds, she discovers an incomprehensible world and a dangerous predator that challenges her ability to survive.

Haleema
Director: Boris Schaarschmidt
Run Time: 17 minutes
Language: Arabic with English subtitles
In the blistering desert of Sudan, a pregnant mother and her two young children search for water and safety from the ruthless Janjaweed militia. When her brother is too weak to continue, Haleema is sent alone to find water. A dangerous journey full of hope and despair ensues.

Invisible Bicycle HelmetDirector: Fredrik Gertten
Run Time: 4 minutes
Language: Swedish
Two female entrepreneurs create a revolutionary bicycle helmet everyone told them would be impossible to engineer.

Laal Pari (The Red Fairy)
Director: Sadia Halima
Run Time: 20 minutes
Language: Hindi/Bhojpuri with English subtitles
When Laal Pari, an illiterate woman, ran for the village council in Bihar, India, she never dreamed she would be re-elected for a second term, and be able to work for the cause closest to her heart – safety and equal rights for women in her village.

Miss Todd
Dire
c
tor: Kristina Yee
Run Time: 13 minutes
Language: English
It's 1909, as the world is waking to the possibilities of flight, Miss Todd dreams of flying but she's got more than gravity holding her down. This is the story of her determination, perseverance, and passion.

Out of Step
Director: Lynn Estomin
Run Time: 6 minutes
Language: English
Featuring four female veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who are dealing with PTSD and the aftermath of war, these dance solos and music highlight the women’s unique voices.

The Red Pill
Director: Lucy Walker
Run Time: 15 minutes
Language: English
Paralympian Anjali Forber-Pratt was adopted from India as an infant and became paralyzed shortly after arriving in the US. Despite daunting obstacles, Anjali is now a PhD student and world record holder in 200m wheelchair racing.

Tina For President

Director: Carmen Emmi
Run Time: 14 minutes
Language: English
A shy 8th grader, Tina runs for class president against the school bully in order to stand up for her friend and herself.

Wild Horses
Director: Stephanie Martin
Run Time: 20 minutes
Language: English
Cruelty, courage, love and memory collide as two generations of women bear witness to the brutality common to wild horse roundups in the American West.

The Worlds of Bernice Bing
Director: Madeleine Lim
Run Time: 34 minutes
Language: English
Chinese American lesbian artist Bernice Bing is known for creating art on her own terms. The film illuminates her life -- from her art studio in the epicenter of San Francisco's beat scene to her groundbreaking community work in rural northern California.

ABOUT THE ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL
Now in its fourth year, the Athena Film Festival -- a celebration of women and leadership -- is an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. The four-day festival, which includes conversations with directors, producers and actors, as well as activities for filmmakers, will be held Feb. 6-9, 2014 in the heart of New York -- at Barnard College (117th & Broadway).

ABOUT THE ATHENA CENTER
Established at Barnard College in 2009, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies is a catalyst for the education, development and advancement of inspired and courageous women leaders worldwide. Renowned civil rights attorney, Kathryn Kolbert, is the Center’s Constance Hess Williams Director.  For more information, visit: http://athenacenter.barnard.edu

ABOUT WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD
Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry. In only six years, it has grown to be one of the most respected sites focused on women's issues and popular culture, and its founder, Melissa Silverstein, has become a well-respected leader on the subject.  For more information, visit: http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/

ABOUT ARTEMIS RISING FOUNDATION
Artemis Rising Foundation is committed to transforming our culture through media and education. Regina K. Scully is the founder and CEO.

ABOUT BARNARD COLLEGE
The idea was bold for its time. Founded in 1889, Barnard was the only college in New York City, and one of the few in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education available to men. Today, as the world-renowned liberal arts college for women at Columbia University, Barnard remains devoted to empowering extraordinary women to become even more exceptional. For more information, visit: www.barnard.edu.
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