As the calendar creeps toward the November 2020 election, we have pulled together 6 movies designed to cut the anxiety with small doses of humor and inspiration.
A THEMATIC SERIES
Escape election anxiety with these movies
CHISHOLM ’72 – UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED
by Shola Lynch
2004
FEED
by Kevin Rafferty & James Ridgeway
1992
FEELS GOOD MAN
by Arthur Jones
2020
JOAN JETT BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT
featuring Terence Smith 1991-92
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE
by Haifaa Al Mansour
2019
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
by Astra Taylor
2018
A DEEPER DIVE
Live Events featuring women in politics
Thursday Oct 15, 6:30pm
Q&A
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE
Join celebrated filmmaker Haiffa Al Mansour as she discusses her experiences as Saudi Arabia’s first woman director and the barriers to women’s political and personal power explored in her latest movie. Post screening virtual Q&A to be moderated by SNF Parkway, Artistic Director, Christy LeMaster.
Sunday Nov 8, 4:30pm
Talk Back
CHISHOLM ’72 – UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED TALK-BACK
Join local Councilwomen Danielle McCray and Sharon Green Middleton and Candidate Phylicia Porter, for a virtual post-screening Q&A as they discuss their responses to the CHISHOLM’ 72 and their experiences of running for office in Baltimore.
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6 Films
CHISHOLM ’72 – UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED
FEED
FEELS GOOD MAN
JOAN JETT BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?
2 Live Events
THUR OCT 15, 8PM
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE Q&A with Haifaa Al Mansour
SUN NOV 8, 6PM
CHISHOLM ’72 – UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED TALK-BACK
1 Immersive Experience
RALLY FOR VOTES
EXPLORE HISTORY
An immersive media experience
Rally for Votes
Rally for Votes is an immersive WebXR experience which celebrates the centennial of the passing of the 19th Amendment. It explores the local histories of Sandy Spring, Mount Vernon, and Druid Hill Avenue as they relate to the women’s suffrage movement in Maryland. The experience features 360 degree video, voiceover narration by Rain Pryor, Jane Beller, and Mary Anne Perry, and music by Dmytro Nebesh. This project is sponsored by JHU’s Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemoration and the Film and Media MA/ISET Program. It features the work of three graduate students, Jason Gray, Haley Knapp and David Samuels.