Are you tired of women being portrayed
as a wimpy character like Stephanie Meyer's Twilight's Bella
Swan as a role model for young women? If this troubles you, then
there is a rich film about empowering young girls that you simply
have to see – “Girl
Rising.” This documentary is from Academy Award-nominated director
Richard E. Robbins and focuses on the stories of nine different
underprivileged girls in the world who struggled to gain the joy of
learning.
The innovative approach that Robbins
took paired each girl with a writer of their home country, including
well-renowned authors such as Edwidge Danticat, Sooni Taraporevala,
and Aminatta Forna. If these names don't ring a bell, the names of
the A-list actresses who provide their voices to the film, such as
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, and Selena Gomez,
amongst others, will. But watching the film is only half the
experience. The music written by Academy Award winning composer
Rachel Portman, in collaboration with Lorne Balfe, will enhance the
experience of watching “Girl Rising” much further than just
seeing images could.
Are you hooked? There's one downfall:
“Girl Rising” isn't on common video hosting sites like Netflix.
But there's an even better option out there: Gathr. This movie
watching program allows you to look up and schedule screenings of
films you want to see out of the ones they offer. If there isn't a
screening of what you want to see happening near you soon, you can
register a new screening of the video at the cost of a single movie
ticket. Gathr then finds movie theaters
(yeah, you're not watching movies of the caliber of “Girl Rising”
on the small screen) in your area to show the video for you.
Don't
you want to see “Girl Rising?” You can learn more about it, more
about Gathr, and see the movie trailer for “Girl Rising” at this
link.
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