Press Releases from Women's Voices Now (3 total)
Women's Voices Now Honors Sujata Day (Definition Please) with 'Women Making Wave …
(Los Angeles, CA June, 2022) - In celebrating the impact of women on and off screen, Women's Voices Now honored Sujata Day with the first-ever 'Women Making Waves' award for her work in the TV industry, on June 11, 2022, at Venice Arts in Marina Del Rey, CA.
"I'm honored and humbled to receive the inaugural Women Making Waves award from Women's Voices Now. I'm lucky to have worked with inspiring…
Women's Voices Now Filmmaker Mina Keshavarz Arrested without Charge, Being Held …
(Los Angeles, CA, May, 2022) - Women's Voices Now has learned that, Iranian filmmaker and Women's Voices Now Film Festival Winner and beneficiary, Mina Keshavarz, has been detained by the Iranian authorities and is currently being held in the Evin Prison.
On May 10, 2022, Mina Keshavarz's apartment was raided in Tehran, Iran. Authorities provided no explanation for the search, and no reason(s) for her arrest. She was apprehended with…
8th Annual Women's Voices Now Film Festival -- The Rights and Roles of Women: Re …
(Los Angeles, CA, March, 2022) - Join sponsors Sony Pictures, Filmocracy, the Lantos Foundation and OUT.LI.ER, for the 8th Annual Women's Voices Now Film Festival on March 24, 2022. The Keynote Speaker will be Jaina Lee Ortiz. Like the previous year, the festival will again take place virtually. The festival promotes emerging women and femme-identifying filmmakers creating social-change films that advocate for women's and girls' rights around the world. The…
