Sentences with phrase «abortion rights film»

Filmmaker Dawn Porter's Trapped, the abortion rights film that won Sundance Film Festival 2016 ′ s U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact Filmmaking, is set to open theatrically on March 4, with subsequent broadcast dates in June on Independent Lens.

Not exact matches

If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.

While Little Woods hits on some of the most important issues facing our country today (health care, rural poverty, abortion rights and access, the opioid crisis), DaCosta commitment to focusing on characters first turns an important movie a deeply personal and intimate film.

Much of Irish artist and film - maker Jesse Jones's work is inspired by women's rights to bodily self - determination, and she is a keen supporter of those who wish to repeal the eighth amendment to the Republic of Ireland's constitution, which criminalises abortion.