{"id":206,"date":"2013-10-09T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T00:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=206"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:29:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:29:40","slug":"film-screening-miss-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/10\/09\/film-screening-miss-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Film screening: \u201cMiss Representation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Hoochies; mark your calendars. A screening of the film <em>Miss Representation<\/em> is being sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/newengland.mkp.org\/\">The ManKind Project of New England<\/a> on November 14, 2013, at 7 pm at \u00a0Kendall Square Cinema, One Kendall Square (at 355 Binney Street) in Cambridge. However:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A minimum of 122 tickets need to be sold in order for this event to happen!\u00a0Please buy yours now and also help spread the word.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The film, written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media\u2019s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tugg.com%2Fgo%2Fvcjy0d&amp;h=EAQFwlBxs&amp;enc=AZMHMdSjLdfbfbsKc7Ok2ONi6nr0yUynJdUANS-5s6qH8MZy9kwc6YSUYWFdYGag9sg&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tugg.com\/go\/vcjy0d<\/a>\u00a0for $15.00.\u00a0There will be an opportunity to gather to meet and discuss the film immediately after the show.\u00a0Tickets will go on sale a midnight, October 11th.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the Official Trailer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6gkIiV6konY\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> or below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"610\" height=\"374\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6gkIiV6konY?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More about the film:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Miss Representation debuted in the documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival where it caught the eye of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. It made its television premier as part of the OWN documentary film club in October 2011, with over 1.3 million people tuning in to multiple airings. More than two years later over 40 countries have screened the film in corporations, non-profits, religious groups, government organizations and communities are happening every day all over the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Miss Representation includes stories from teenage girls and provocative interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics like Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Jackson Katz, Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem. The film offers startling facts and statistics that will leave audiences shaken and armed with a new perspective.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman\u2019s value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality \u2014 and not in her capacity as a leader. While women have made strides in leadership over the past few decades, the U.S. is 90th in the world in terms of women in national legislatures, women hold only 3 % of clout positions in mainstream media, and 65% of women and girls have disordered eating.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Miss Representation was selected from the Sundance line-up to be part of the OWN Documentary Film Club. \u201cThrough personal stories and provocative interviews, Jennifer crystallizes the relevance of the media and its portrayal of women in today\u2019s society,\u201d said Lisa Erspamer, Chief Creative Officer for OWN. In addition, ro*co films will distribute Miss Representation to educational institutions (K-12 institutions, universities and libraries) located in the United States and Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/missrepresentation.org\/\">MissRepresentation.org<\/a> is igniting a cross-generational movement to shift the cultural mindset of communities, interrupt and stop patterns of sexism, change the way women and girls are represented in the media and ensure a tipping point that will lead to gender parity in leadership throughout the United States. Join the campaign at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missrepresentation.org&amp;h=UAQFszR-Y&amp;enc=AZM6W2LmDMS57mrYled87MZL40FnKMngNeiatF783Ww7Cch6hCVA4cElv-ZIjFKpqrQ&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\">www.missrepresentation.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please feel free to direct questions to <a href=\"mailto:MissRep.mlh@gmail.com\">MissRep.mlh@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Hoochies; mark your calendars. A screening of the film Miss Representation is being sponsored by The ManKind Project of New England on November 14, 2013, at 7 pm at \u00a0Kendall Square Cinema, One Kendall Square (at 355 Binney Street) in Cambridge. However: A minimum of 122 tickets need to be sold in order for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2013\/10\/09\/film-screening-miss-representation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Film screening: \u201cMiss Representation\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[157,158,159,160,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}