“We need to tell more stories about various identities, the kind that have often been erased and dismissed, so that we have a more complete, wholistic view of ourselves.”
Ruth Pollak: One Woman’s Film Inspires a Festival
When TV producer Ruth Pollak got the idea in the early 90’s to create a documentary about the fight for women’s suffrage, the first thing she did was to find out if she had any competition. “I was sure somebody else would have done the story of the passage of the legislation by then. It is just so dramatic,” she …