This slide show introduces the activities and films available in March for Women's History Month and International Women's Day. All 10 films included in the #SheDocs Film Fest can be screening through OVEE. To learn how to use OVEE, contact renee_gasch@itvs.org for a personal demonstration.
2. International Women’s Day &
Women’s History Month - March 2013
#SheDocs Online Film Festival
10 films available to watch online and screen
through OVEE
Half the Sky Salon Screenings
Free DVDs with a 40 minute reel of Half the Sky
Wonder Women! Community Cinema
Sneak Preview Screenings in 100 cities
3. #SheDocs Film Fest
March 1 - 31
10 films available to watch on womenandgirlslead.org
I Was Worth 50 Chahinaz: Patsy Mink: Solar Mamas
Sheep What Rights for
Women
Ahead of the Majority
We Still Live Welcome to Women, War & When I Rise
Here the World Peace Series
5. OVEE Year-Round
• Fundraising
– case study: Half the Sky Edna Adan screening
• Member Engagement
– case study: Girl Up movie nights
• Training
– case study: Motherland Afghanistan screening
• Campaigns
– case study: Why Poverty? Global Symposium
Welcome to the OVEE Training Webinar. Before we start with introductions, I’m going to do a quick roll call to see who is here today. [ROLL CALL] My name is Renee Gasch, I work here at ITVS (Independent Television Service) on the Women and Girls Lead campaign. I’m joined today by my colleague Steve Goldbloom, who will hear more from later when we set up an OVEE screening. Many of you know LocsiFerra, our Women and Girls Lead campaign manager. Locsi’s going to get us started with an overview of what’s on the horizon for Women and Girls Lead.
Locsi’s slide. Three primary activities available to partners in the month of March.
Renee’s slide: Sneak peak at the films in the #SheDocs Film Fest. You’ll see 9 films pictures, we’re securing out 10th right now. We’ll be tweeting at that hashtag throughout the month linking individuals to great films they can watch in celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. We’ll are creating a web page with links to all the films that will be on womenandgirlslead.org in February. And after the webinar, we will send you a PDF flyer that you can share with your organizations to help select films. We’ll also create a social media kit with sample posts and images that you can share or use to promote any events or activities associated with the films. FilmsI Was Worth 50 Sheep – Is a story about child marriage. It follows two girls who are sold into marriage at age 15 in Afghanistan and their efforts to escape.Chahinaz: What Rights for Women – Chronicles a 20-year-old Algerian student has she is developing, questioning and determining her views on women’s rights. She reaches out across borders to think about the status of women in Algeria.Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority – Tells the story of Patsy Mink, the first woman of color in the U.S. senate and author of Title IX legislation.Solar Mamas – Is the story of Jordanian woman who leaves her Bedouin village for the first time to attend a solar engineering training in India.We Still Live Here – Follows the Wampanoag nation, in particular Jessie Little Doe, who leads a revival of the Wampanoag language, which has had no native language for many generations.Welcome to the World – Is a story about poverty and inequality. It looks at child and maternal mortality as indicators of poverty in three areas of the world: San Francisco, Cambodia, Sierra Leone.Women War & Peace – Is a series of five films that look at the effect on war and peace-making on women – in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Colombia and Liberia. It includes Pray the Devil Back to Hell, which many of you may have worked with in the past.When I Rise – Story of Barbara Smith Conrad, an African-American opera student in the 1950s who finds herself in a civil-rights storm after she is cast alongside a white male lead in a university performance.MAKERS – airs February 26th on PBS. Film interviews extraordinary women from the fields of arts, sports, politics, business, science, etc who have made America.Ways to ParticipateSocial media or blog posts with links to filmsHost an in-person events by streaming filmsHost national or global OVEE online screenings
Renee’s slide: OVEE is a social screening platform to watch and discuss films online together with a national audience. You as moderators can select films to screen from the PBS Video Player (video.pbs.org). You can invite expert panelists, celebrities, your president, etc to discuss an issue in the chat section while the film plays. The moderator can include polls, pause points for discussion, links to resources or campaigns, and even dial in through a web cam. Participants can express their opinions through emoticons, taking polls, liking comments in the chat window, or typing in their own questions and comments. Or they can choose to watch in full screen. And after the screening, the moderator can download metrics: most liked comments, participation time, etc. The biggest factor in deciding to host a screening is knowing what’s available to screen and when. Because of rights agreements, films stream online for varying lengths of time. The great advantage of March is that our filmmakers have agreed to have their films stream online for 30 days.
Renee’s slide: Beyond March, you can work with me to access the schedule of films available to support your programming year round. I’ve included a few examples of how organizations in the past have incorporated OVEE screenings into their work.Fundraising: Participants donated directly to Edna Adan Hospital during the Half the Sky screening.Member Engagement: Starting in February, Girl Up will be hosting movie nights with their members.Training:Motherland Afghanistan screening brought together midwives and advocates for a discussion.Campaigns:Why Poverty? Symposium invited a global audience to participate in a conversation about gender & poverty.First two screen grabs are from OVEE Alpha. The third is from the new and improved OVEE Beta version, which launched in December 2012. Without further ado, lets set up a screening… - Steve
Welcome to the OVEE Training Webinar. Before we start with introductions, I’m going to do a quick roll call to see who is here today. [ROLL CALL] My name is Renee Gasch, I work here at ITVS (Independent Television Service) on the Women and Girls Lead campaign. I’m joined today by my colleague Steve Goldbloom, who will hear more from later when we set up an OVEE screening. Many of you know LocsiFerra, our Women and Girls Lead campaign manager. Locsi’s going to get us started with an overview of what’s on the horizon for Women and Girls Lead.