Tuesday, October 18, 2011

EVERY PARENT NEEDS TO WATCH THIS!

Marion Pellicano Ambrose

If you are a parent, you really need to see this incredible documentary!

Watch “Miss Representation”
On OWN Documentary Club
Thursday, October 20th at 9/8c

 When the new documentary film Miss Representation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences were riveted, and Oprah Winfrey acquired its broadcast rights. Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom interwove stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from the likes of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Lisa Ling, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Rosario Dawson, Dr. Jackson Katz, Dr. Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem to give us an inside look at the media and its message.
As the most persuasive and pervasive force of communication in our culture, media is educating yet another generation that a woman’s primary value lay in her youth, beauty and sexuality—and not in her capacity as a leader, making it difficult for women to obtain leadership positions and for girls to reach their full potential.
The film accumulates startling facts and statistics that leave audiences shaken, armed with a new perspective, and asking the question, “What can we do?”


*Special thanks to my friend, actor Roddy Murphy for sharing this documentary with me.

1 comment:

  1. That's some list of influential women! I'll be watching for sure!

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