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The Seventh Circle with Director Alexandra Velasco
Visionary Voices
11/14/22 • 26 min
Diana Means interviews Alexandra Velasco about her art-horror film "The Seventh Circle".
About the film
The Seventh Circle features a frustrated man's descent into a horrific spiral of madness when he is confronted over and over again with his violent past.
About the podcast
Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionary voicespodcast.com
Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.
Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival
Editing by Otaku Media
"Working Today Only For Tomorrow" with Director Vjosa Cerkinih
Visionary Voices
10/14/22 • 22 min
Diana Means interviews Lebanon director Vjosa Cerkinih about her film "Working Today Only For Tomorrow" a documentary film that exposes the inability of middle-aged women to find work in Kosovo.
About the film:
"Working today, only for tomorrow" is a short documentary that shows the inability of middle-aged women to find work in Kosovo. This documentary shares the stories of middle-aged women who have been discriminated against in the labor market and are now forced to take on the risk of working in the black labor market as cleaners in private homes.
About the Director:
Vjosa Çerkini has finished her Bachelor's and Master's studies in Journalism and Public Relations at the University of Prishtina. Vjosa is a journalist by profession. She started her career in Germany in 2015, she became part of the German television “Bayerischer Rundfunk” in Munich. Since 2019 she is working as a journalist for the German television “Deutsche Welle” and as a correspondent for “Perspektiva.plus” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2020 she started working as a freelance author for the German Press Agency in Hamburg. In 2020 she was part of the Federal Press Office within the German government in Berlin. She has also been published in other German media such as ZeitJung.de, Pur Magazine, etc. She is the winner of many journalistic scholarships in the Balkans for investigative research.
About the podcast:
Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionaryvoicespodcast.com
Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.
Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival
Editing by Otaku Media
"The Perfect Picture" with Lebanese Director Hala El Kouch
Visionary Voices
09/23/22 • 23 min
Diana Means interviews Lebanon Director Hala El Kouch about her film "The Perfect Picture" a documentary film selected for the Women Voices Now film festival.
About the film
In order to try and fix a traumatic event that has been disclosed for a year and a half, Hala decides to reside away from her parents for an entire week in a singular closed space. After preparing it, she invites them. She insists on revisiting and disclosing the incident by overcoming her fear of communication with her parents, but things absolutely do not go as planned.
About the Director
Hala El Kouch is a director, editor, photographer, voice-over artist, and writer. She grew up in Nigeria, then moved to Lebanon for her studies in 2008. With a BA in audiovisual and an MA in film directing from the Lebanese University Of Fine Arts, she graduated with distinction. She worked as a cinema teacher in Action For Hope, as a creative director at The Actors Workshop Beirut, and as a freelancer. She has directed more than 6 short films, one of which was "Fishing Out of the Sea" which won several first-place awards in national and international festivals.
About the Podcast
Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionaryvoicespodcast.com
Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.
Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival
Editing by Otaku Media
"MAVKA" Conversation with Ukrainian Filmmaker Alona Shylova
Visionary Voices
09/15/22 • 23 min
Diana Means interviews Ukraine, Kyiv screenwriter and Director Alona Shylova about her latest film "MAVKA" a short narrative film selected for the Women Voices Now film festival about two teenage girls speaking about their everyday life as young women and the problems of adulthood. Swimming in the lake promises nothing special until one of the girls meets Mavka, a mysterious creature from Ukrainian legends.
About the Podcast
Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means, founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionaryvoicespodcast.com
Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.
Women’s Voices Now is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that uses film to drive positive social change that advances women's and girls' rights globally. Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. Since 2011, our independent film festival has received 965+ impactful social-change films from more than 85+ countries, brought them to millions of viewers in 178 countries around the world, and awarded $118k in cash prizes. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit The Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival
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09/01/22 • 32 min
Diana Means interviews documentarian and director Maria Lobo about her latest film "Indebted To All Women" a documentary created for political and social advocacy that gives voice to El Salvadorian women suffering and struggling to change one of the most restrictive laws in the world for sexual and reproductive rights. In El Salvador abortion is punishable by 20-40 years in prison regardless of circumstance.
About Maria Lobo
Maria Lobo has worked in media for almost two decades and has been part of the technical and directing team in documentary films such as "Yindabad" (2007) a documentary awarded at three international film festivals that narrates the struggle of the Adivasi tribes against the construction of a dam in India, and “Within the Circle”(2012), a story about mental health told by the protagonists of an audiovisual project of social inclusion. As a freelancer Lobo has also worked for TV and independent production companies.
Organizations and links discussed in the podcast
- AGARESO - Galician Association of Communication for Social Change) Our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/agareso
- Maria Lobo's freelance website: Gingko
- Lobo's first documentary in India: Yindabad
- Lobo and team's first project with women at risk and/or imprisoned: Sweet Precaution
- Lobo and team's second film on mental health Within the circle
- Lobo and team's work with intellectual disabilities and women: We don't want to be invisible
About the podcast
Visionary Voices podcast is produced and hosted by Diana Means founder of Alliance of Women Filmmakers, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement and equality of women in entertainment. For more filmmaker conversations with Diana Means please visit www.visionaryvoicespodcast.com
Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.
Women’s Voices Now is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that uses film to drive positive social change that advances women's and girls' rights globally. Their annual film festival promotes emerging women filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. Since 2011, our independent film festival has received 965+ impactful social-change films from more than 85+ countries, brought them to millions of viewers in 178 countries around the world, and awarded $118k in cash prizes. For more information about WVN including their film selection process please visit https://filmfreeway.com/WomensVoicesNow
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04/05/22 • 19 min
"The Least We Can Do" chronicles the journey of a small group of women in British Columbia, Canada, who are relieved when the Canadian Government votes to bring Yazidi women and girls to Canada as refugees and provide them with comprehensive trauma care for their ‘unimaginable suffering’.
The women are horrified to later discover that the government has not followed through on all its promises. The Yazidi were brought to Canada and then neglected. Trauma services are inadequate, unplanned, and failing. As the group urges the government to keep its promise, they encounter unexpected support along the way.
"The Least We Can Do" screens at The Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival Sunday, March 27 at 11:30 am/PST
For tickets visit: https://www.stellartickets.com/o/alliance-of-women-filmmakers/events/the-least-we-can-do/occurrences/4ed1b7bd-e5a5-4e80-8d95-39a5de5afd46
For more information about the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival and complete feature line up visit http://www.lawomensfest.com
For more information on Moira Simpson and WRAP:
https://womenrefugeesadvocacyproject.ca/
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"Finding Courage" Film Conversation with Director Kay Rubacek
Visionary Voices
03/25/22 • 30 min
In "Finding Courage," a former journalist for the Chinese Communist Party (YIFEI WANG), living in exile in San Francisco, struggles to settle into life in America while working to heal her family’s wounds from their tragic past. She is seeking justice for the murder of her sister at the hands of the Chinese authorities.
"Finding Courage" screens in the virtual presentation of The Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival Sunday, March 27 at 1:00 pm/PST
To tickets visit: https://www.stellartickets.com/o/alliance-of-women-filmmakers/events/finding-courage/occurrences/f07a3890-89b9-46d3-9495-3622974aaaac
For more information about the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival and complete feature line up visit http://www.lawomensfest.com
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In " Lost Vegas Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow In Our Gender Diverse Community" director Bella Castellarin leads an all LGBTQI+ team, to document the history of Las Vegas' diverse community and give voice to those who are rarely heard.
This feature documentary screens Saturday, March 27 at 5:00 pm/PST
For tickets visit: https://www.stellartickets.com/o/alliance-of-women-filmmakers/events/lost-vegas-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-in-our-gender-diverse-community/occurrences/6bd4cf9a-5b95-4bac-acd1-e7b65443853d
For more information about the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival and complete feature line up visit http://www.lawomensfest.com
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03/23/22 • 17 min
In "Tell Me About Orange," when Elliot’s best girlfriend expresses her romantic feelings for him, Elliot a blind teenage boy struggles to express his, but soon realizes that sometimes love really is blind.
"Tell Me About Orange" screens Saturday, March 26 at 4:00 pm/PST
For tickets visit: https://www.stellartickets.com/o/alliance-of-women-filmmakers/events/tell-me-about-orange--2/occurrences/439d6b6e-9ff7-49d6-ba9a-7cca2815390b
For more information about the Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival and complete feature line up visit http://www.lawomensfest.com
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'Harvesting Our Tea' with Director Sheida Kiran
Visionary Voices
03/23/23 • 30 min
Diana Means interviews British-Turkish-Iranian documentary filmmaker and musician Sheida Kiran to talk about her documentary film 'Harvesting Our Tea' screening in the online Women Voices Now documentary film festival March 1st - March 31st.
ABOUT SHEIDA KIRAN
Sheida is a British-Turkish-Iranian documentary filmmaker and musician based in London. She conducted research on women and migration during her BSc Social Sciences studies at UCL. This led to her MA in Documentary Film at LCC and position as a production coordinator at award-winning charity Medical Aid Films, where she supports the production of health films for vulnerable women and children. Driven by her passion for ethnographic storytelling, her most recent work focuses on documenting women in agriculture and their rights to land ownership.
ABOUT HARVESTING OUR TEA
For centuries, women have picked tea on the steep slopes of Turkey's Black Sea region. It is grueling work, and much of what they earn has traditionally been handed to their husbands. ‘Harvesting Our Tea’ follows a new generation of women who are turning their backs on tea picking and the overall submissive culture. As these young women hope for change the older women fear for their way of life.
ABOUT THE WOMEN’S VOICES NOW (WVN) FILM FESTIVAL AND HOW TO ATTEND
The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival is an international women’s rights documentary film festival supporting emerging women filmmakers. Since 2011, we have received 1070+ film submissions from 85+ countries. See link below to purchase tickets through Eventbright.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2023-womens-voices-now-film-festival-holding-ground-under-siege-tickets-529692373147
Discounted tickets can be requested by emailing: [email protected].
Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.
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How many episodes does Visionary Voices have?
Visionary Voices currently has 27 episodes available.
What topics does Visionary Voices cover?
The podcast is about Film, Film Interviews, Podcasts, Tv and Tv & Film.
What is the most popular episode on Visionary Voices?
The episode title '"Basta" with Co-Director Lesley Elizondo' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Visionary Voices?
The average episode length on Visionary Voices is 20 minutes.
How often are episodes of Visionary Voices released?
Episodes of Visionary Voices are typically released every 1 day, 19 hours.
When was the first episode of Visionary Voices?
The first episode of Visionary Voices was released on Feb 7, 2022.
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