Exclusive: Zurawski v Texas, the new documentary executive produced by Jennifer Lawrence, Hillary Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, earned two awards as the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition.
The film, centering on women who filed suit against the state of Texas after its extremely restrictive abortion laws almost cost them their lives, won the Jury Prize for Best Feature at Hsdff, North America’s longest-running documentary festival. Zurawski v Texas, directed by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, also won the Hot Springs Matt DeCample Audience Choice Award for Best Feature.
Plaintiff Amanda Zurawski in ‘Zurawski v Texas’
“This urgent film sheds light on the inhumane and devastating consequences of Texas’s restrictive abortion laws,” the jury said of Zurawski v Texas. “By following the legal battles and intimate personal stories of several women denied essential healthcare, it powerfully and movingly highlights the vital importance of protecting women’s autonomy,...
The film, centering on women who filed suit against the state of Texas after its extremely restrictive abortion laws almost cost them their lives, won the Jury Prize for Best Feature at Hsdff, North America’s longest-running documentary festival. Zurawski v Texas, directed by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, also won the Hot Springs Matt DeCample Audience Choice Award for Best Feature.
Plaintiff Amanda Zurawski in ‘Zurawski v Texas’
“This urgent film sheds light on the inhumane and devastating consequences of Texas’s restrictive abortion laws,” the jury said of Zurawski v Texas. “By following the legal battles and intimate personal stories of several women denied essential healthcare, it powerfully and movingly highlights the vital importance of protecting women’s autonomy,...
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There She Is
Directed by Veena Rao and Emily Sheskin
2011, USA
The beauty pageant holds a troubled and often troubling place in pop culture. Though pageant proponents might promote the talent and interview components as proof of a well-rounded focus, contests like Miss America ultimately pit women against each other on the basis of physical appearance and thus reflect perceived beauty ideals over time. Even or especially as the nation becomes larger, that ideal has remained well thinner than the average, size 14. Even the women who look the part have been exposed to scandal for not living up to standards of character or purity that seem equally unrepresentative of the real lives of women. While the social prominence of pageants has decreased and their current role is more often a voyeuristic hope for catty drama, laughable ineloquence or, in the case of the child pageants that populate the reality television world,...
Directed by Veena Rao and Emily Sheskin
2011, USA
The beauty pageant holds a troubled and often troubling place in pop culture. Though pageant proponents might promote the talent and interview components as proof of a well-rounded focus, contests like Miss America ultimately pit women against each other on the basis of physical appearance and thus reflect perceived beauty ideals over time. Even or especially as the nation becomes larger, that ideal has remained well thinner than the average, size 14. Even the women who look the part have been exposed to scandal for not living up to standards of character or purity that seem equally unrepresentative of the real lives of women. While the social prominence of pageants has decreased and their current role is more often a voyeuristic hope for catty drama, laughable ineloquence or, in the case of the child pageants that populate the reality television world,...
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