The Thomas Edison Film Festival   and the Hoboken Historical Museum present the annual Women’s HERstory Month Marathon celebrating women, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming filmmakers, with 3 virtual programs of selected shorts and talks with filmmakers led by Jane Steuerwald, festival director.

The programs will be available on-demand and will run through the end of the month, until March 31^st, 2022. All 3 programs are available for free to the public on the Festival’s website: www.tefilmfestival.org. To reach the 3 programs, go to https://tefilmfest.org/curations.php, scroll down and click on “2022 Seasons Curations” to open list, and then select “Women’s HERstory Month Marathon”, Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3.

Donations are welcome and much appreciated. To donate, visit the festival’s homepage – www.tefilmfestival.org, and scroll down to “Donate.”

Part I features selected documentary films about women by filmmakers in Italy, Belarus, and the US, including: Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color –

by Cheri Gaulke, Washington, DC, US; The Pigeon Lady – by Giulia Brazzale, Rome, Italy; Generation 328 – by Veranika Nikanava, Belarus and NY, NY, US; The Pratt in the Hat – by Susan Hillary, Goshen, NY, US; and Neurodivergent – by Afton Quast Saler, Pasadena, CA, US. For more information: TEFF HERstory Program 1

Part II features a conversation with filmmakers Sonali Gulati and Lynn Tomlinson, including a screening of their films – Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night and Miles and Kilometres by Sonali Gulati, Richmond, VA, US; Ten Degrees of Strange and The Elephant’s Song by Lynn Tomlinson, Owings Mills, MD, US. TEFF HERstory Program 2

Part III features a conversation with filmmakers Ellen Smith Ahern and Shayna Strype, including a screening of their films plus selected works by filmmakers from Belgium and across the US. Clear Creek by Ellen Smith Ahern, Lebanon, NH, US and Kate Elias, Seattle, WA, US; Our Mine – by Shayna Strype, Brooklyn, NY, US; A Hand to Hold – by Stacey Davis and Ali Clark, Homewood, AL, US; Forestkeeper – by Alisa Karo, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; Of This Beguiling Membrane – by Charlotte Pryce, LA, CA, US; The Inconvenience Store – by Chelsea Pitti-Fernandez, Wayne, NJ, US; The Mirror – by Mimi Chakarova, Berkeley, CA, US; and Whisper, Rustle by Maureen Zent, Atlanta, GA, US. For more information:  TEFF HERstory Program 3

For 41 years, the Thomas Edison Film Festival has been advancing the unique creativity and power of the short form. The Festival is an international juried competition open to all genres and filmmakers across the globe. The Festival’s touring program reaches out to diverse audiences in diverse settings with screenings of cutting-edge, cross-genre films including narrative, experimental, animation, and documentary. The Festival’s homebase is the Hoboken Historical Museum where we work together to enrich the community. These programs are made possible in part through the generous support of the Hudson County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs and Tourism. To learn more about the Thomas Edison Film Festival visit www.tefilmfest.org, to learn more about the Hoboken Historical Museum visit https://www.hobokenmuseum.org