Special Guest Scheduled to Appear
Women on Top: Legacies of Women in Global Cinema
A collection of films from two standout new talents.
Shaandiin Tome (Diné) is an Indigenous writer, director, and cinematographer whose work spans documentary and narrative forms. Her narrative projects have been selected for the Sundance Creative Producer’s Fellowship 2019, Sundance Talent Forum 2020, and Sundance/OneFifty/WarnerMedia’s Indigenous Intensive Fellowship 2020. Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian American filmmaker whose documentary short Period. End of Sentence. won an Academy Award in 2018, making her the first Iranian American woman to win an Academy Award.
Long Line of Ladies (Shaandiin Tome and Rayka Zehtabchi, 2022, 22 mins): A girl and her community prepare for her Ihuk, the once dormant coming-of-age ceremony of the Karuk tribe of northern California. Featured at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
Are You Still There? (Rayka Zehtabchi and Sam A. Davis, 2021, 5 mins): A dead car battery leaves Safa stranded alone in a strip-mall parking lot.
Period. End of Sentence. (Rayka Zehtabchi, 2018, 26 mins): Indian women fight the stigma surrounding menstruation and begin manufacturing sanitary pads.
Mud (Shaandiin Tome, 2018. 10 mins): A women's craving for a connection with her son is hindered by alcoholism.
A Woman's Place: The Butcher, the Chef and the Restaurateur (Rayka Zehtabchi, 2020, 30 mins): A short documentary film that captures the stories of three chefs, their careers, and their shared experience as women in the culinary industry facing and overcoming institutionalized sexism.
Directors Rayka Zehtabchi and Sam A. Davis will provide a special virtual introduction to this program.
This screening is generously supported by the Women's Philanthropy Leadership Council and the Gender Studies Graduate Association.
