International Women’s Day Short Films – with CSFilm’s “The Fruit of Our Labor” – Baltimore, MD

Creative Alliance and the Baltimore Resettlement Center present….

International Women’s Day: Short Films Series and Panel Presentation

Thursday March 7th, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224

$12 general admission, $7 members and students.
Information tables and craft market begins at 7pm.

info@creativealliance.org, 401-276-1651

Victory to Change is a documentary by Baltimore-based filmmaker Gregory Walsh. It follows two remarkable female Indian activists as they fight for the most marginalized members of society.  Community Supported Film, an organization that trains storytellers from developing countries as filmmakers, presents three shorts by Afghans.  Art of Solidarity, MICA in Nicaragua, presents The Mothers of Martyrs, a documentary that revisits the Nicaraguan Revolution 30 years later by interviewing mothers who survived. They reflect on the tragedies of war with the goal of passing on their stories to a new generation and advocating for world peace.

Panel discussion will follow, with Elizabeth Alex from Casa Maryland, Aida Pinto-Baquero from Patterson Park Public Charter School’s Mis Raices, Sawsan Al-Sayyab of International Rescue Committee, and members of the Baltimore Women’s Forum – a monthly dialogue group of refugee women, including Mary Kinyoli of Kenya, and Nidaa Haseeb of Iraq.