Faculty Assembly Committee for Women

Announcements & Events

Intersections Film Festival October 16 - 18, 2009
IFF seeks to engage the Colorado Springs and Front Range communities in an exploration of women’s lives and experiences both in major urban centers as well as provincial contexts. The films represent a diverse range of issues that document contemporary realities of the Middle East from honor killings to drug addiction and sexual abuse, from sharing intimate stories and frustrations in a beauty parlor to waiting for the return of one’s migrant working spouse. Experiences further include the challenges of pursuing one’s film studies in a war-torn city and shirking off social conventions of wearing the veil. IFF addresses not only a range of women’s experiences in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa but also asks the ways that certain experiences might intersect with our own in the United States. IFF intends to intersect and engage UCCS and CC campuses with local K-12 educators, other local colleges (Pikes Peak Community College and the Air Force Academy), Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD), and local community organizations. This three day festival (October 16 – 18) will alternate screening locations between CC and UCCS campuses. Audience members will be able to engage with invited filmmakers and producers in Q&A sessions following certain film and documentary screenings. In addition, Nigar Nazar, Pakistani cartoonist and social activist, and Dr. Kate Leonard (Dept. of Art, CC) will lead a discussion after the opening night’s screening of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.

All screenings will be free and open to the public. We hope that connections made at this festival will prompt dialogue along the Front Range as well as expand an already vibrant fall film festival line-up in Colorado Springs. We are delighted to be working with ArteEast, a New York-based, international, non-profit organization supporting artists from the Middle East and North Africa, the Moon and Stars Project, a non-profit organization promoting Turkish culture and arts along with Brooklyn-based independent film production compan Fictionville Studio, LLC.

For more information, please visit www.uccs.edu/IFF.