One Woman One Vote Film Festival
YOUR POWER FOR CHANGE
June 30 - November 3, 2020
To celebrate the centennial of the 19th amendment winning women the vote and continue to bring women's voices front and center, the 2020 One Woman One Vote Festival and Women Make Movies invite you to join us in a nationwide initiative -- the 2020 One Woman One Vote Film Festival, a curated collection of films for you to create your own online film event, and four online national screening events (Wonder Women, RBG, Councilwoman, Without a Whisper) to encourage, inspire and empower women everywhere to use their power for change.
Organizing Coalition
Planning for the ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE Film Festival is being directed by an organizing council based in Washington, DC.Steering Committee
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz
Co-DirectorMichon Boston
Co-DirectorRuth Pollak
Advisor, History CommitteeMichel Carr
Honorary CommitteeSusan Barocas
Programmer, 2020 Film FestivalRobin Smith
Special ProjectsMichelle Delino
Public Relations/MarketingJudith Dawn Hallet
Educational PatnershipsRosemary Reed
SponsorshipsDonna Woolf
SponsorshipsBarbara Valentino
AdministrativeMelissa Houghton
Women in Film & Video DCFounding Coalition
Bonnie Nelson Schwartz
BNS Productions Int.Bonnie Nelson Schwarz is a Broadway producer of theatre, television, and concerts with more than 100 plays, films, television programs and concerts in Washington, DC, New York, London, and in South Africa to her credit. Ms. Schwartz is the founder and original producer of Washington, DC’s Helen Hayes Awards. She was a producer for NBC’s Closing Ceremonies at the Barcelona Olympic Games and co-created and produced The Olympic Woman, a multi-media exhibition book, Grace and Glory, for the Atlanta Olympic Games. She also authored the book Voices from the Federal Theatre based on her television special, Who Killed the Federal Theatre? Recent productions include Studs Terkel: Listening to America on HBO; Traveling While Black, a television and transmedia project premiering at the New York Film Festival, and The Power of 7, an international film and human rights campaign based on the play, SEVEN, that tells the remarkable story of 7 courageous women have changed their societies for the better.
Michon Boston
Michon Boston Group LTD.Michon Boston is founder and principal of Michon Boston Group Ltd providing consulting and strategic planning to film, media makers and organizations on impact campaigns to reach and inspire their target audiences. Client projects include ITVS, Firelight Media, Smithsonian Institution, AFI DOCS, and engagement campaigns for films featured on PBS and HBO. Michon is also a freelance journalist and a published/produced playwright. Her articles are published in The New York Times, Washington City Paper, The Washington Post Magazine. Her play, "Iola's Letter" about the anti-lynching activist, suffragist and journalist Ida B. Wells is published in Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women Playwrights, edited by Kathy A. Perkins and Judith L. Stephens.
Susan Barocas
Independent Producer/WriterSusan Barocas is a writer and producer specializing in documentaries and films for non-profit organizations. Her screen credits include projects for Discovery, Channel 4 (London), Maryland Public Television and Sierra Club among others. She served as director of the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Women in Film and Video International Festival. Her work includes building community and organizational support for films and film festivals for such clients as AFI Docs, National Geographic and the Washington, DC International Film Festival. She serves on the WIFV Advisory Council and is a past board member.
Michel Carr
Hillman & Carr Inc.Michelle Delino
Michelle Delino MediaMichelle Delino is a media strategist with over thirty years of experience working in television production, marketing, and public relations. She began her TV career as a talent booker and field producer with HBO in NYC, and years later she joined WUSA-TV (CBS) as a producer in Washington, DC. She took the leap of faith to work independently as a freelancer in 1998 and founded Michelle Delino Media LLC in 2012 to broaden the scope of her business.
MDM brings a high level of creativity and industry insight to brand development, digital marketing campaigns, and PR projects. Ms. Delino works primarily with small business owners, authors, physicians, industry experts, and talent who wish to hone their on-camera skills and increase brand awareness with digital media. MDM produces creative conscious content that reflects a client’s core values, message and contributions to society. Whether for TV, websites or social media, MDM produced content educates, enlightens and entertains audiences worldwide.
Michelle Delino is a Past President (2000-2001) and board member (1997-2001) of Women In Film & Video (WIFV) in Washington, DC. She currently sits on WIFV’s Advisory Board. She joined the Organizing Coalition of the 2020 One Women One Vote Festival, acting as PR and Marketing Committee Chair.
Ginny Durrin
Durrin ProductionsAmy DeLouise
Amy DeLouise ConsultingPhyllis Geller
Norman Star MediaPhylis Geller, President, Norman Star Media, has spent most of her career as a producer and production executive for PBS. She was a producer at Thirteen/WNET; later she served as Sr. V.P. of Production at KCET/Hollywood, WETA, Washington, and Maryland Public Television. Programs under her supervision included drama, music, arts, history, science and public affairs, and won some of the most prestigious awards in broadcasting. Since forming Norman Star Media in 2005, she has written, produced and directed multiple Emmy-winning or nominated programs for cable and PBS.
Judith Dawn Hallet
Judith Dawn Hallet ProductionsIn 1991, Judy formed her own company, Judith Dwan Hallet Productions. Over her career she has made over 100 documentaries in 17 countries around the world on subjects as diverse as a tribe living in tree houses in the rainforest in New Guinea, to the gauchos in Argentina, and a biography on Pope John Paul II as well as on the return of the buffalo to Yellowstone and the American Indian reservations. She has received many distinguished awards including Woman of Vision Creative Excellence Award from Women in Film and Video in Washington, DC, The Washington DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline and an Emmy from The National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition for her significant contributions to the broadcast industry. Judy earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in French from the University of Utah following graduate studies at the School of Motion Pictures at UCLA.
Frances Hardin
Hardin Media InternationalJennifer Lawson
Lawson ConsultingBarbara Matusow
WriterBeth Mendelson
Voice of AmericaRuth Pollak
Educational Film CenterRosemary Reed
Double R ProductionsRosemary Reed is owner and President of Double R Productions (Double R). Founded in 1987 and successfully operating in Washington, DC for 30 plus years, the communications, video and television production company has served. clients as varied as major national newspapers, Fortune 500 companies, the US government, associations, corporations, local arts organizations and many nonprofits. Reed is also a writer, producer, director and chief cook and bottle washer at Double R. Reed established her reputation in Washington, DC working for the FOX network as the executive producer of Panorama, the nation’s longest running “live” talk show with Maury Povich. She also produced the first weekend news hour for WTTG-TV-Channel 5 in Washington. Previously Reed’s career as a reporter, anchor and special projects television producer/director has covered all major regions of the country. Her assignments have taken her abroad to witness crisis situations in Israel and El Salvador. She has worked in countries all over the world for many network affiliates. She began her media career as a radio station news director.
Robin Smith
Video ActionRobin Smith is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker with 40 years of experience. She began her career as a network news producer in New York on CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt. In 1990, Ms. Smith established a not-for-profit in Washington D.C. to provide high-quality production services to artists, educators, community organizations and government agencies addressing the needs of vulnerable populations. Video/Action productions have been featured in a wide variety of venues, from film festivals, public television broadcasts, national conferences and art exhibitions to fundraising galas and gatherings of community activists in church basements. Under her direction, 7 documentaries and more than 550 public awareness videos have been released. Her work has been honored with an array of awards, including a CPB Gold Award for Excellence in Documentary Television Programming, four Capital Region Emmy Awards and dozens of CINE Golden Eagles, Telly, Aurora and Omni Awards. An active member of Women in Film and Video, Ms. Smith served as president of the Washington, D.C. chapter (1995-1996) and received its prestigious Woman of Vision award in 1998. She was named a Distinguished Alum in the School of Fine Arts at Ohio University in 2003 and received the University’s Medal of Merit in 2006.
Barbara Valentino
Evolving CommunicationsCatherine Wyler
Wyler-Rymland ProductionsCreate Your Film Event
CHOOSE YOUR FILM & PLAN YOUR EVENT
Decide who is your audience and what will attract them to your event. Choose your film(s) from the list below. Access the film(s) by registering to receive a link and password to the WMM site for your screening. Screenings must be free for your audience and may not be used for organizational or political fundraising.
CREATE A POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION PLAN
Invite a local leader, historian, TV personality, author, librarian, or other person of influence who shares your vision. Form partnerships with others celebrating the suffrage centennial to expand the audience for your screening and perspectives for the post-screening discussion.
CREATE A CONTACT LIST
Your contact list includes organizations in your community allied with your cause. Think broadly about potential partners - the women in these films did!
PROMOTE YOUR EVENT
Promote your screening event to your members, your partners, newspapers, your local broadcast outlets, meet-up groups, universities, and libraries. There is a template for a news release and images in the OWOVFF Toolkit folder (link) that you can tailor to your screening event.
Use your database/website or a platform like Eventbrite to invite your target audience. These event serivces can add names to your supporter base and coordinate screening registrations.
For social media Include links and handles to your partners’ social media-- Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and websites to announce your event. Create your own hashtag such as #women4change[your town].
Please include @2020owovfest and @womenmakemovies in your social media as well. Use the logos and/or website links for Women Make Movies (https.www.wmm.com) and 2020 One Woman One Vote Festival (https://2020owovfest.org) in your promotions and website. They are available in the OWOVFF Toolkit folder. The folder will be updated with additional resources.
Send us with your questions about the OWOVFF 2020
One Woman One Vote Film Festival Collection
June 30 - November 3, 2020
PATSY MINK: Ahead of the Majority
directed by Kimberlee Bassford (2008)Trailer
LADONNA HARRIS: Indian 101
directed by Julianna Brannum (2014)Trailer
MAGGIE GROWLS
directed by Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater (2002)STEP BY STEP: Building a Feminist Movement
directed by Joyce Follet (1998)SUFFRAGETTES IN THE SILENT CINEMA
directed by Kay Sloan (2003)Trailer
MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING: Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama
directed by C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan (2009)Trailer
HEATHER BOOTH: Changing the World
directed by Lilly Rivlin (2016)Trailer
CHISHOLM '72: Unbought and Unbossed
directed by Shola Lynch (2004)Trailer
YURI KOCHIYAMA: A Passion for Justice
directed by Rea Tajiri and Pat SaundersThe 2020 ONE WOMAN ONE VOTE FESTIVALis a collaboration with national organizations and cultural institutions to present concerts, exhibitions, and public events leading into the centennial of the 19th Amendment. Between now and November 2020, working with our national partners, we are presenting film screenings, multi-media exhibitions, public symposia, theatre and music to both celebrate and empower women for the future.
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES is the world's leading distributor of independent films by and about women, WMM amplifies historically ignored voices and challenges the mainstream media. WMM supports women producers and directors from the beginning, planting the seeds for a diverse and inclusive filmmaking landscape. Their acclaimed collection of nearly 700 films is used by thousands of cultural, educational and community organizations across North America and throughout the world working in collaboration with international film festivals, national broadcasters, and local community groups to deliver media that enriches public dialogue and changes lives.