University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper
University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper
Little Stones Documentary Screening and Artist Panel
April 20, 2018 at 7 pm
Eckhardt Gramatte Hall (3rd floor of Centennial Hall), University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue
Advanced tickets available for $15 at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/little-stones-documentary-screening-and-artist-panel-tickets-43561588885 or $20 at the door
The Winnipeg Holistic Expressive Arts Therapy (WHEAT) Institute will host a community screening of the award-winning documentary film LITTLE STONES. Little Stones follows Brazilian graffiti artist Panmela Castro, Senegalese rap-singer Sister Fa, Indian dance therapist Sohini Chakraborty, and fashion designer Anna Taylor as they use their art to combat violence against women and to empower women and girls globally.
Directed and produced by EMMY® Award-winning filmmaker Sophia Kruz, Little Stones was filmed in Senegal, Kenya, Brazil, Germany, India and USA. The film won Best Foreign Documentary at the Female Eye Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Vail Film Festival, and an Award of Excellence from the Impact Docs Awards. A Q&A with the filmmaker, and local artists Jaime Black and Luna Wanda Galdames, will follow the screening. WHEAT is thrilled to host this community screening of Little Stones.
Film Synopsis - From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex-trafficking survivors in India, Little Stones profiles four women, each of whom are contributing a stone to the mosaic of the women’s movement through their art. The film and accompanying education initiative have been designed to raise awareness about global women’s rights issues, and to celebrate creative, entrepreneurial, and arts-therapy based solutions to the most pressing challenges facing women globally.
About Director Sophia Kruz - Sophia Kruz is an EMMY® award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her work has screened at film festivals and museums globally, and broadcast nationally on PBS.
About Jaime Black – Jaime is an emerging, Metis multidisciplinary artist based in Winnipeg. She has taught in Opaskwayak Cree Nation in the Pas, Manitoba, has worked developing art curriculum for the Urban Shaman: Contemporary Aboriginal Art, and has long been involved in the Aboriginal writers and artists communities in Winnipeg. In her artwork, she attempts to create a dialogue around social and political events and issues, through provocation or creating space for reflection. She is particularly interested in feminism and Aboriginal social justice, and the possibilities for articulating linkages between and around these movements. Jaime is the artists behind the REDress Project, which focuses around the issue of missing or murdered Aboriginal women across Canada.
About Luna Wanda Galdames - Luna is an interdisciplinary indigenous artist from Chile now living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A primary focus of her work continues to be the human body and identity. As an immigrant to Canada she has been a participant and observer to how identity is attached to place, and her interest is in the results achieved by removing people/objects from specific spaces. She also founded the dream room project (La sala de los sueños Inc.) a Winnipeg-based, not-for-profit charitable organization helping children and youth heal from traumatic experiences through art by transforming bedrooms in homes, group homes, treatment centers, shelters and community-based healing centers into hope-filled spaces.
