August 9, 2010, 8pm

Sternberg Park (map)

A moving documentary tells the story of activist single mothers who managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time. Plus Latino selections from the Ultra Short 30-Second Film Festival: Art By Chance

Featuring

A Crushing Love by Sylvia Morales

The film honors the achievements of five activist Latinas: labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.

Questions about reconciling competing demands are ones that highly acclaimed filmmaker Sylvia Morales, a working mother of two herself, pondered aloud as she prepared this documentary. Historical footage and recent interviews with each woman reveal their contributions to key struggles for Latino empowerment and other major movements of our time. Both they and their grown children thoughtfully explore the challenges, adaptations, rewards, and missteps involved in juggling dual roles. Scenes of Morales at work and at home, often humorously overlaid with her teenage daughter’s commentary, bring the dilemma up to date. Chicana continues to be used in classrooms more than thirty years after it was made; A CRUSHING LOVE is a memorable sequel which offers us indelible portraits of unforgettable women, including one of Morales herself.

No Time by Carolina Arce Herrero

This video intends to propose that perhaps, there is no time like an unidirectional succession of realities, and maybe, what we know as present past and future, could be the same time in different spaces.

Women Make Movies

Established in 1972 to address the under representation and misrepresentation of women in the media industry, Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. The organization provides services to both users and makers of film and video programs, with a special emphasis on supporting work by women of color.

Art By Chance

The ultra-short film festival that takes place on digital signage in more than 20 countries every May.