Women of Color Film Festival 2005

3/3/05 to 3/6/05

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Past Films

Querida Familia
- Sunday, March 6 5:30pm
Artists in Person. Daughters reach out to their families across boundaries of nation, culture, and even death in these moving works about the ties that bind.
Our Cosmos, Our Chaos
- Saturday, March 5 7:30pm
Artists in Person. From Korea to Canada, India to San Francisco, displaced people seek new meanings of "home" in stirring shorts and a feature with Indian activist Arundhati Roy.
Bending the Beat
- Friday, March 4 7:30pm
Artists in Person. Women bend traditional roles and invent alternative identities-skateboarder, cable car operator, poet, Brazilian drummer-in these inspiring shorts.
Outside the Box (Free Screening!)
- Thursday, March 3 5:30pm
Artists in Person. Celebrating women's diverse abilities and desires.

Women of Color Film Festival 2005

3/3/05 to 3/6/05

In celebration of its tenth anniversary year, the Women of Color Film Festival proudly showcases diverse, thought-provoking short films and videos, maintaining a commitment to premiere promising works from emerging artists as well as recognize the accomplishments of award-winning filmmakers. This year we had the daunting task of selecting from the many worthy films by sisters of color we received in record-breaking numbers from around the world as well as from the Bay Area.

Whether concerning a child attempting to piece together the disappearance of her parents in Argentina, black student activism on the Yale campus, or the inspiring actions-that-speak-louder-than-words of author Arundhati Roy, the films in this year's festival span a full spectrum of truths, from the humorous to the sobering, and bring them uncannily close to home.

Linda Charmaraman

WOCFF has expanded to an additional venue in San...

Linda Charmaraman

WOCFF has expanded to an additional venue in San Francisco. For details on the March 13 program at San Francisco Cinematheque, log on to www.sfcinematheque.org or phone (415) 552-1990. For the entire festival program, visit www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/women_of_color_2005.

The 20th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference will be held March 3–5 on the UC Berkeley campus. For more information, please consult the conference website at http://ewocc.berkeley.edu or e-mail EWOCC_20th@lists.berkeley.edu.

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The 2005 festival was coordinated by Linda Charmaraman and Ariana Proehl, and curated by Elaine Kovacs, Rosa Lau, Sara Gambin, Patricia Contreras, Cindy Lin, Amy Corbin, Desi Gallardo, Eileen Koh, Jooyeon Nam, and Sharmaine Lewis, with the assistance of Irene Avetyan, Antoinette Chevalier, Virginia Eleasar, Tyfahra Singleton, and Suowei Xiao.

The Women of Color Film Festival is an ASUC-sponsored, wheelchair-accessible UC Berkeley student initiative and is cosponsored by the Empowering Women of Color Conference, the Gender Equity Center, and the YWCA. The Women of Color Film Project would like to thank the Consortium for the Arts, Graduate Assembly, Film Studies Program, Women's Studies Department, Ethnic Studies Department, Comparative Literature Department, Multicultural Student Development Office, Nagulan Nesiah, and Pacific Film Archive for their generous support.

Women of Color Film Festival 2005

3/3/05 to 3/6/05

Past Films

Querida Familia

Our Cosmos, Our Chaos

Bending the Beat

Outside the Box (Free Screening!)