On Friday, March 19, the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Thomas Edison Film Festival kick off a Women’s HERstory month film marathon presenting 3 virtual programs of selected shorts by women filmmakers, including a talk with Jane Steuerwald and filmmaker Deborah Peretz (Part I), conversations with filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Lisa Barcy (Part II), and conversations with filmmakers Charly and Eriel Santagado and Sophie Shue (Part III).

The programs will go live starting on Friday, March 19, and will run through the end of the month, March 31. All three programs are available to view for free to the public – donations are welcome and much appreciated.

To view the programs go to www.tefilmfest.org – the Festival’s homepage.

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Part I includes a conversation with Deborah Peretz and Uliks Gryka and a screening of  Peretz’s film “A Rose from My Garden.” 

Part II includes conversations with filmmakers Lynne Sachs and Lisa Barcy, along with the following films: The Ephemeral Orphanage – Animation – by Lisa Barcy, Chicago, IL, US; Carolee, Barbara & Gunvor – Documentary – by Lynne Sachs, Brooklyn, NY, US; Miracle on Central Park West – Animation – by Candy Kugel, NY, NY, US; I want to make a film about women – Documentary – by Karen Pearlman, Sydney, Australia; Ekstase – Experimental – by Marion Kellmann, Cologne, Germany; A Portrait – Documentary – by Carlotta Beck Peccoz, London, UK;  Waste Away – Animation – by Elly Stern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; On the Domestication of Sheep – Animation – by Jill Godmilow, NY, NY, US; Who Won the War – Documentary – by Francesca Di Marco, Albany, CA, US;  Lazarus – Experimental – by Tuixén Benet Cosculluela, Barcelona, Spain; and Alder – Experimental – by Vanda Ladeira, London, UK.

Part III includes conversations with filmmakers Charly and Eriel Santagado, Sophie Shui, along with the following films: Listen to Us – Documentary – by Juliana Henao, Savannah, GA, US; Dancing is an Old Friend – Experimental – by Marta Renzi, Nyack, NY, US; De-Eschatology – Experimental – by Charly and Eriel Santagado, Metuchen, NJ, US; Lullaby for a Pandemic – Experimental – by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Lincoln, NE, US; A Trip with Mom -Narrative – by Sophie Shui, New Taipei, Taiwan; Jane – Animation – by Ilene E, Princeton, NJ, US; Radical Care: The Auntie Sewing Squad – by Valerie Soe, San Francisco, CA, US; Kapaemahu – Animation – by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, and Joe Wilson, Honolulu, HI, US; JamieSonShine – Experimental – by Phoebe Jane Hart and Jamison Hart, LA, CA, US; My Body Given for You – Experimental – by Anna-Clair Ostasenko Bogdanoff, Paris, France; and Liberate – Experimental – by Karen Lavender, Beverly Hills, CA, US.

For 40 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 — narrative, experimental, animation, and documentary. Subject matter includes issues and struggles within contemporary society such as the environment, public health, race and class, family, sustainability, and much more. These exceptional works range from animation, comedy, and drama to the exploration of pure form in film and video.

To learn more about the Thomas Edison Film Festival visit blackmariafilmfestival.org. 

The festival’s Hudson County Movie Tour is made possible through the generous support of The Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs & Tourism, Gina Hulings, Director/Administrator.