Our founder Nadine Pequeneza has made it to the semi-finals of the Athena Film Festival Writers Lab with her script #RareEarth. It's also under consideration for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship! In partnership with the Sloan Foundation, which is designed to support writers working on women-centric STEM-focused projects. Wish her luck! athenafilmfestival.com/writerslab/
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Last week marked 3 years since the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan. Since that time, they have continuously violated the rights of women and girls and created barriers to movement, education and much more. Human Rights Watch has called the situation "the world’s most serious women’s rights crisis". www.hrw.org/news/2024/08/11/afghanistan-taliban-tighten-grip-3-years-rule
Take a moment and add your name to the petition to #EndGenderApartheid now: endgenderapartheid.today/
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Coming soon from HitPlay is #SeeingGreen, a doc that offers a new perspective on how to fight the climate crisis: listening to/learning from plants. One featured expert is 🇨🇦 Ecologist Suzanne Simard. Listen to her #TEDTalk "How trees talk to each other"
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