Women Deliver Announces Cinema Corner Finalists for Women Deliver 2013

On International Women’s Day, Women Deliver is pleased to announce the filmmakers who are invited to screen their work at Cinema Corner, a special feature of the Women Deliver 2013 global conference. These films will tell the stories behind Women Deliver’s mission of reducing maternal mortality and improving access to reproductive health, and they will help conference participants connect to these key issues. This year, nearly 200 inspiring and informative films were submitted for consideration.

Building on the success of the inaugural Cinema Corner that took place at the 2010 Women Deliver conference in DC, the 2013 Cinema Corner will include three days of screenings running concurrent to the conference. Cinema Corner engages filmmakers, media outlets, and audiences in film-related advocacy opportunities. The arts is an important element of Women Deliver’s approach to making a more equitable world for girls and women.

The filmmakers have an exciting opportunity to share their work on a global platform, and to distribute their films to participants.

Women Deliver is privileged to have the Cinema Corner curated by Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Lisa Russell, MPH who curated the 2010 Women Deliver Cinema Corner. She has produced films on issues such as maternal health, youth in conflict zones, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and is the co-founder of MDGFive.com.

Cinema Corner is proud to invite the following films from a variety of genres including documentaries, narrative, music videos, PSAs, trailers, scene selects, and more (in alphabetical order):

• A Healthy Investment: Linking Family Planning and Microfinance – Dr. Shamistha Basu, Rick Homan and Eva Canoutas (FHI 360)
• A Kiss for Gabriela - Laura Murray
• A Thin Line – World Health Organisation
• Abortion Worldwide - Guttmacher Institute
• AGALI Malawi Digital Stories – Change At All Cost - AGALI Country Coordinator Howard Kasiya
• Because Our Cause is Just - Women's Learning Partnership / Rainlake Productions
• Belong to the Sun/MDGFive.com Arts & Advocacy – Lisa Russell
• The Body Politic: Peer to Peer Sex Ed - Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Born in Silence - Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth
• Census - United Nations Population Fund with generous support from the Government of Luxembourg
• Crescendo - Alonso Alvarez
• Delhi Rising – Ayesha Sood / Jamun
• Discomfort - BBC Media Action India
• Don't Close Your Eyes, We Can End Fistula - United Nations Population Fund
• Educational Video on Menstrual Hygiene - Sulochana Pednekar
• Ek-teen-do (One-three-two) - BBC Media Action India
• Elders Speak: A New Dawn for Women in Kenya - Deborah Espinosa & Rena Singer
• Empower Women, Empower the Future - United Nations Population Fund
• Every Breath of Life - Adimu Madyun and ShakaJamal
• Films on PPH Management - Staffan Bergstrom
• Freedom For Birth - Toni Harman and Alex Wakeford
• Ganth Bandh Lo (Tie a Knot) - BBC Media Action India
• Girls Decide - International Planned Parenthood Federation
• Graceland Girls -  Jordan Salvatoriello
• Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide – Half the Sky Movement
• Harmonious & Discordant: A Story of Love – Population Services International
• Haule Haule - Population Foundation of India and Mr. Feroz Abbas Khan
• Health Systems Create Healthy Futures: Meet Maya – World Bank and GMMB          
• HERProject - Primark and Pretzel Films
• Humaira: The Dream Catcher - SOC Films/Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
• I Heart Being a Girl - YSAFE volunteers
• I'll Take It From Here - Mary Matheson, Shona Hamilton, and Raj Yagnik
• Imagine - Global Health Workforce Alliance
• It's a Girl - Evan Grae Davis and Andrew Brown
• It's a Girl Music Video – Evan Grae Davis and Andrew Brown
• Kadi: Saving Mothers and Babies, One Voucher at a Time - Population Council
• MAMA Bangladesh - MAMA & Micro-Documentaries LLC
• Mama C: Urban Warrior in the African Bush – Joanne Hershfield
• Mama Creator Music Video - Lisa Russell
• Mama Hawa - Kristin Sellefyan and Jon Bjorgvinsson
• Mamas' Voices: Healthy Mama, Healthy Baby - International Museum of Women
• Marcio's Story: A MenCare Film from Brazil – Promundo
• Our Message – Leela Thapa, Savitri Rana Magar, Bijula Rana Magar, Isha Sharma, Dinesh Devkota, Joanna Morrison
• Por Fin Parió Paula  - Chris Newman and Patricia Alvarez
• Rags to Pads - Chithra Jeyaram
• Rafea: Solar Mama - Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim 
• Positive and Pregnant – Candice Lela-Rolingson, Stacy Lela, and Nyron Rolingson
• Revolution of Love – Christina Stevens
• Second Chances: Releasing the Power of Girls - CARE International
• Sex Education Program for Teenagers in Uganda - Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
• SHE28 Campaign – Hugebrown and Sustainable Health Enterprises
• SISTER - Brenda Davis                   
• South Africa: From Victim to Victor - United Nations
• SPEAK OUT: Domestic Violence in Egypt -  Jenny Montasir
• Stolen Moments - BBC Media Action India
• Suspicious Densities – Rich West and Sheri Stroud
• Suwi-Faith - Paivi Takala and Musola Cathrine Kaseketi
• The Branded Girls - Bijoyeta Das, Khaled Hasan
• THE CALL: A Choice No Mother Should Face - Breakthrough, People's Television, and McGraw Wolfman
• The Cola Road - Claire Ward
• The Home Visit - Global Health Media Project
• The Life: Ballerina - Mohammad Maaty
• The Motherland Tour - Yvonne Chaka Chaka
• The Silkies of Madagascar - David Evans
• The Time is Now: Invest in the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Young People - Alexandra Hervish and Jennifer Schwed
• The Traditional Home - Remi Vaughan-Richards
• The World's Women: Challenges and Solutions - Thomson Reuters Foundation
• Too Young to Wed:  Destaye: Child Marriage - Stephanie Sinclair, Jessica Dimmock/VII, and Union HZ (United Nations Population Fund)
• Tough Bond - Anneliese Vandenberg and Austin Peck
• Tres Generaciones - Erica Nelson and Dylan Howitt
• Vaccinating Against Cervical Cancer - HPV Vaccines in Rwanda – Diane Summers and Ryan Youngblood (GAVI Alliance)
• Urgent: Access to Family Planning for Crisis-Affected Communities - Women's Refugee Commission
• Walking With Life: The Birth of a Human Rights Movement in Africa - Kenny Mann
• Where Are You… - Amy Hill, Allison Meyers, Andrea Spagat, Julia Zeuli and Roberto Morales
• White Knight – Humanity Watchdog
• Why Did Mrs. X Die, Retold - Gwyneth Lewis, Amy Gadney and Emily Goldner (Hands On for Mothers and Babies)
• Winners of the Female Condoms Are...Film Contest – PATH

View the Cinema Corner schedule. For more information on the Women Deliver 2013 conference please visit www.WD2013.org.

Women Deliver photograph by Sam Hurd.