03/05/14
The Family of Woman Film Festival Educates on the World’s Women and Children
The seventh annual Family of Woman Film Festival in Sun Valley will take place March 4-10 with film screenings from around the globe at the Sun Valley Opera House and free internationally recognized public speakers at The Community Library in Ketchum.
The festival supports the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which works in over 150 countries to achieve a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
“This year’s films were selected to represent a broad range of what the festival theme, ‘Women and Education,’ might mean,” said Peggy Elliott Goldwyn, festival co-chair. “While Anita Hills speaks to the power of truth, a small girl in Afghanistan only has a fantasy of school and an illiterate slum-dweller in Brazil finds life itself has given her an education.”
Films for the 2014 Family of Woman Film Festival include “Anita” 2013 (USA) by Freida Lee Mock, “Rafea, Solar Mama” 2012 (Jordan/India) by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim, “Tall as the Baobab Tree” 2012 (Senegal) by Jeremy Teicher, “Bay of All Saints” 2012 (Brazil) by Annie Eastman and “Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame” 2007 (Afghanistan) by Hana Makhmalbaf.
“The Family of Woman Film Festival presents the clear need to educate and empower women and girls for the future of the world,” said Stephanie Freid-Perenchio, festival co-chair. “Every year for the past seven years, our films portray this mandate—the challenges women and their families face and their successes.”
02/13/14
FILTERED: What Does Love Look Like? Featuring Stephanie Freid-Perenchio’s Photo
A mother’s love is the first and most enduring love of all. Unequivocal and unconditional, a mother’s love is a blanket of protection. This elephant calf lost his mother before he was even two months old-the trauma of elephant poaching. Here, a caregiver at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Rescue in Kenya feeds this orphaned calf and the calf reaches up with his trunk in a show of intimacy and affection. The blanket, the bottle, the trusting eyes–we can see the gravity of this loss as the calf seeks comfort from the hands that hope to heal him.
FILTERED: What Does Love Look Like?
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02/12/14
Wall Street Journal – Family of Woman Film Festival in Sun Valley, March 7-10
SUN VALLEY, IDAHO-The 7th annual Family of Woman Film Festival will take place at the Sun Valley Opera House, March 7-10, with dramatic and documentary film screenings from around the globe and internationally recognized speakers. A special pre-film festival event with Allison Shigo, producer of the Emmy Award-winning documentary film, “A Walk to Beautiful,” which was presented at the 2009 Family of Woman Film Festival, will launch a new festival retrospective of filmmakers returning to talk about their current life and work.
Shigo has started a charity in northern Ethiopia to help victims of fistula-the subject of her documentary. She is currently partnering with the United Nations Population Fund [UNFPA]. She will screen her film and speak about her humanitarian work at The Community Library on Tuesday, March 4, at 5:30 p.m.
The festival is also proud to present the first Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture for The Health and Dignity of Women on Thursday, March 6, at 6 p.m. at The Community Library. An international humanitarian and advocate for many local causes, Bonni died in an accident this past August. She had been a supporter of the Family of Woman Film Festival from its inception. The inaugural speaker for the Bonni Curran Memorial Lecture will be Meagan Carnahan Fallone, Head of Global Strategy for Barefoot College. Based in India, the college is the subject of “Rafea: Solar Mama,” which will screen at this year’s festival. Barefoot College is a non-profit organization based in India teaching rural women solar electrification, water purification and livelihood development.
11/18/13
Family Planning 20/20 Annual Report Featuring Stephanie Freid-Perenchio Photography
Dear Stephanie,
We’re pleased to share an advance copy of the FP2020 progress report. We wanted you to see just how incredible your photos have made our report look! We’ve received feedback from everyone that the photos are just visually stunning. Stephanie, we really can’t thank you enough. I am now hoping we can get a head start on next year’s report!
Best,
Zahra Aziz
Senior Communications Officer, FP2020