Schedule of films + speakers
Join us for six days full of festival goodness April 17-22, 2012. All screenings will take place at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, located at 149 West Hastings Street in Vancouver.
SaturdayApril 214:00pm
Miss Representation
90 mins/ 2011/ USA Premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in October 2011, “Miss Representation” is a documentary highlighting the sexualization and objectification of females in the media, in particular women in positions of leadership. The film is an excellent beginning to raise awareness of a pervasive problem in the media that manipulates the minds of both males and females to reinforce unhealthy attitudes and perceptions about women. The treatment in the media of Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and others are compared and contrasted with their male counterparts in eye-opening detail. Features Katie Couric, Geena Davis, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda, Lisa Ling and many more.
Co-presented by PCFF and Girl Gang with a panel discussion curated by Girl Gang Screening at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, 149 West Hastings St. in Vancouver map. |
Speaker PanelDiamond Isinger is a BC-based communications and online strategy consultant. She has experience on more than a dozen political campaigns at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels. Her other past clients include non-profit organizations, resource companies, and government agencies. She has also worked with key decision-makers to develop strategies to engage young people and women in government policymaking processes in Canada and abroad.Sergio Toporek is an artist, designer and independent filmmaker. His work explores the relationship between art, mysticism, science, and technology. He has designed over 80 cd covers, working with all major labels, and with musicians as varied as Luis Miguel and Cafe Tacuba. A native of Mexico City, Sergio moved to Vancouver in 1996, joining the faculty of the Vancouver Film School in 2006. He is currently directing a transmedia documentary titled Beware of Images, which examines the intricate relationship between the technology, regulation and social effects of visual representation. Linda Solomon is the founder and publisher of The Vancouver Observer and a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist. She has won awards for public service reporting and investigative reporting from United Press International. and economic reporting from the John Finney awards. She has worked as a freelance reporter for publications such as the L.A. Times and the International Herald Tribune. She's the author of "Why I Love Vancouver" and proud mother of two boys, ages 9 and 15. Andrea Warner is a freelance writer and editor in Vancouver, specializing in music, film, arts and entertainment. She's working on two non-fiction books. When described as a "lady author," she can't help but reply, "Yes, I'm writing the books with my vagina. Literally." This is why she works alone at home. Desiree Lim is a true cultural hybrid. A second-generation Chinese born in Malaysia, she grew up there as well as in Japan, where she obtained her B.A. in journalism at Tokyo’s Sophia University. Lim started her career in television as the director and associate producer for news and documentaries at TV Asahi and later worked for NHK in Tokyo. Her debut Japanese TV feature, Sugar Sweet (2002) and Canadian TV drama Floored By Love (2005) opened to sold-out audiences at major LGBT film festivals in North America, Europe and Asia. HOME, a two-part project including a short narrative drama and a documentary with real testimonials on human rights abuse in Malaysia from Burmese refugees, made its North American premiere at Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival in 2011. THE HOUSE is Lim’s latest feature film, a supernatural psychological thriller that will make its international premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival in the spring of 2012. Currently, Lim is based in Vancouver, Canada. desireelimfilms.com Aerlyn Weissman is a writer/ director and new media strategist with extensive international production credits on projects ranging from forensic archaeology and digital culture to sexuality and censorship. As a new media project director she is using location-based technologies and social mapping to produce new portraits of community that look at public space and the production of social / cultural assets in our urban centres. Aerlyn has taught representation in popular culture and professional media practice at the University of British Columbia and Emily Carr University. A frequent speaker at industry, community and academic forums, she addresses issues of media literacy, documentary methods and community engagement. The recipient of two Genie Awards, she has a Master’s degree in Digital Media, awarded jointly by the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University and was the first recipient of the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award in Film and New Media in 2009. Mary-Lynn Young, moderator Mary-Lynn Young, PhD, is Dean of Arts and Communications at UBC and an award-winning academic and university educator. Dr. Young is an authority on gender and the media, newsroom sociology, media credibility and representations of crime. She has worked as a reporter and editor for more than a decade at a variety of daily newspapers including The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Hamilton Spectator and The Houston Post. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto in 2005 with her doctoral dissertation, Crime Content and Media Economics: Gendered Practices and Sensational Stories, 1950-2000. In January 2007, Dr. Young launched the FeministMediaProject.com |
