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Life of women after military service is seldom portrayed in films.tells the story of an African-American woman sergent who, after three tours of duty, is back home affected with Paustromatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
The film very effectively puts forward the bigger issues of the challenges veterans face to reintegrate civil society and the issue of the protection of women in the military by going to the personal life of this one female soldier.
" "Stand Down Soldier" portrays the return from combat tours in the Mid-East of a female, African-American Sgt. Written, directed and starring Jeryl Prescott-Sales of the "Walking Dead," it is a penetrating look at the trauma faced by soldiers seeking to re-establish the life, loves and relationships they left and a Veterans Affairs system that fails them. Yet, it is the trauma inflicted by rape at the hands of a fellow combatant which makes "Stand Down Soldier" a unique, compelling, must-be-seen film. While much discussion of the role of women-in-combat and the debilitating effects of combat related PTS has occurred... the war-time reality of rape, especially that of the African-American woman at the hands of a "white cohort" has been ignored. Bombs may burn the body but rape sears the spirit and the soul. In the end, it is her community, her loved ones and her strength that lead her back home from a place African-American women had left behind generations ago. Kudos to Ms. Prescott-Sales...she has done her "sisters-in-uniform" proud." - Radio talk show personality Sanford Moore Directed by Jeryl Prescott Sales, 2015, USA, 82mins, drama, English.
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WHITE LIES
With a “quietly powerful central performance!”
(Hollywood Reporter)
By award winning filmmaker Dana Rotberg, and New Zealand’s 2014 Oscar submission in the Foreign Language Category based on a novel by “Whale Rider” writer Witi Ihimaera - White Lies is an intense women-centered drama that explores with great humanity and sensitivity such difficult topics as race relations, skin bleaching and abortion.
This compelling story tackles moral dilemmas, exploring the nature of identity, societal attitudes to the roles of women and the tension between Western and traditional Maori medicine. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2013.
Directed by Dana Rotberg, 2013, New Zealand, 96mins, Drama, English and Maori with English subt.
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SEXY MONEY
 A reflection of the difficult social conditions of poor African women in Europe and Nigeria, SEXY MONEY explores frontally with much sensitivity and compassion the broken hopes and hard choices of poor Nigerian women as they struggle to reintegrate Nigerian society with dignity after being expelled from Europe. SEXY MONEY presents a subtle indictment of the social reality of poor women in Europe and contemporary Nigeria. Directed by Karin Junger, 2014, 85 min, Nigeria/ Netherlands, documentary, English.
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OTHER FILMS DIRECTED BY WOMENDISTRIBUTED BY ARTMATTAN FILMS ARE:
* The First Rasta by Helene Lee
* The Silent Monologue by Khady Sylla
* Colobane Express by Khady Sylla
* Childhood Destroyed by Zara M. Yacoub
* Amilcar Cabral by Ana Lucia Ramos Lisboa
* Cape Verde My Love by Ana Lucia Ramos Lisboa
* Feminine Dilemma by Zara M. Yacoub
* Nelio's Story by Solveig Nordhund
* The Glass Ceiling by Yasmina Benguigui
* Family Motel by Helene Klodawsky
* Josephine Baker, Black Diva in a White Man's World by Annette von Wangenheim
* White Like the Moon by Marina Gonzalez Palmier
* Abdias Do Nascimento by Aida Marques
* Gulpilil, One Red Blood by Darlene Johnson
* Looking for Life by Claudette Coulanges
* Sara Gomez, An Afro-Cuban Filmmaker by Alessandra Muller |
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