Exciting New Feminist Film Premiere in San Francisco!

Filmmaker Louise Vance worked with California NOW to produce our two films, A Passion for Justice and Action for Justice. I'm thrilled to see the feminist work she is doing now!

Seneca Falls Premiere Screening and Benefit Saturday, March 29, 2008 7pm Reception, 8pm Show A SWAN Day Event! Brava Theater Center, 24th Street @ York, San Francisco TICKETS:  $20
Student/Senior $15
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WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION SILENT AUCTION

MS.TRESS OF CEREMONIES: Deborah Pardes
Q&A with the filmmakers and the troupe after the show

"The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter,
the way people look at reality, then you can change it." - James Baldwin

Please attend on Saturday, March 29th for a fun and moving evening at the San Francisco Premiere and Benefit Screening of the independent documentary, Seneca Falls.

The film chronicles the remarkable journey of nine teenage girls -- a struggling multicultural theater troupe -- as they travel from San Francisco to the birthplace of women's rights in America to stage their original play.  Part teenage road trip, part shocking history lesson, the film is, above all, an awakening of young hearts and minds. You can learn more about the project at senecafallsfilm.org.

Please help spread the word about the event by forwarding this invitation to everyone in your orbit - friends, family, neighbors - well, you get the idea!

If you'd like to support the film, but can't attend the premiere, you can make a secure, tax deductible gift towards our project's finishing costs and educational outreach through The Fund for Women Artists. 

Message from the Film Director, Louise Vance:  

 SWAN DAY 2008

Our film's premiere is part of a new international holiday called SWAN Day - Support Women Artists Now.  SWAN Day is being organized by The Fund for Women Artists, womenarts.org, a non-profit organization that helps women artists get the resources they need to do their creative work. Over the past decade, The Fund for Women Artists has raised over $4 million and built a website that serves 500,000 visitors a year.

Proceeds from this event will allow us to secure the film's music rights and launch our educational outreach campaign.  Many thanks to Martha Richards and The Fund for Women Artists for their incredible support!  For more information about other SWAN Day events worldwide, visit swanday.org.

What is Seneca Falls?

Most of us have never heard of Seneca Falls - I surely hadn't before making this film.  That's because despite its enormous impact, the revolution born at Seneca Falls is barely mentioned in school.  In fact, the average sixth grade history textbook devotes one paragraph to the entire women's rights movement.

Seneca Falls is a sleepy village in upstate New York where, in 1848, a few courageous souls, already active abolitionists, staged a public protest that ignited a movement to free American women from social, legal and political bonds based in gender.  It is the birthplace all American women share.

Sincerely,

Louise Vance
Director

Special thanks for their support:
HONORARY HOSTS
Aileen Hernandez, Former National NOW President and Women's Rights Pioneer
Roma Guy, Women's and Health Advocate, Founder of the Women's Building
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
The CLAER Project
The California Women's Agenda
The Women's Intercultural Network

Seneca Falls is a fiscally sponsored project of Cinefemme, a California nonprofit supporting films by, for and about women. The SWAN Day screening of Seneca Falls is a project of The Fund for Women Artists.