"Indebted to All Women" Conversation with Documentarian and Filmmaker Maria Lobo

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
Editing by Otaku Media

About Maria Lobo

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

Alliance of Women Filmmakers is proud to partner with Women Voices Now to present this podcast.

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"The Least We Can Do" screens at The Los Angeles Women's International Film Festival Sunday, March 27 at 11:30 am/PST

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Organizations and links discussed in the podcast