Video making to Fight the Right: The Right to Choose
Chicago Filmmakers

The Religious Right has made the media one of its strongest weapons in their fight against abortion rights. Videotapes such as The Silent Scream enjoy wide distribution helping to promote a frightening right wing agenda aimed at codifying religious doctrine into law.


12/8/1998 - 12/8/1998

7:30pm


The Religious Right has made the media one of its strongest weapons in their fight against abortion rights. Videotapes such as The Silent Scream enjoy wide distribution helping to promote a frightening right wing agenda aimed at codifying religious doctrine into law. Moderating the screening and discussions will be local videographer and screenwriter Jennifer Allen who will show an excerpt from Gay Rights, Civil Rights (1994). Setting the tone for the discussion this documentary addresses right wing attacks on clinics as just one aspect of a broader assault on civil rights for lesbians, gays women and minorities. A panel of women videomakers and activists will show excerpts of their work or works in progress that deal with a wide range of issues and experiences within the pro-choice movement and discuss funding distribution and public access for videomakers. Issues of divisiveness within the Left and how to form a stronger, more visible pro-choice media coalition will also be discussed. Panelists include: activist Jan Boudart of the Emergency Clinic Defense Coalition (ECDC) and local videomakers Kate Kirtz, Nell Lundy, Katy Maguire, Kate Wrobel and Julie Zando.

Production
Chicago Filmmakers

Tags: Film, American, 1994