1) Watch the 5 Short Films on YouTube (Running time Approx 55 mins)
We would suggest starting the films at 6.30 PM (EST) / 11.30 AM (UK) to be ready in time for the Q&A.
2) Join for the Live Q&A at 7:30 PM (EST) / 12:30 AM (UK 17th April): RSVP HERE
The Q&A will feature Alice Quinlan (Impact Operations Producer), In Conversation with Charlotte Mangin (Series Creator, Executive Producer, Writer and Director), with the participation of Kathy Leichter (Impact Producer - Two Suns Media)
UNLADYLIKE2020: Traditional media has focused abundantly on suffragists, but what about the first American woman to: Found a hospital on a Native American reservation? Earn an international pilot’s license? Serve in the U.S. Congress? Open a film studio? Sing at Carnegie Hall? Make discoveries in astronomy? Become a bank president? Through 26 animated biographical shorts and a public television broadcast hour, we will give the brave, tenacious women who paved the way in male-dominated fields some well-deserved attention and provide a nuanced, inclusive understanding of America’s past.
One of the greatest strengths of UNLADYLIKE2020 is the diversity and inclusiveness of the women featured, representing as many racial, cultural, gender, economic, geographic and professional backgrounds as possible. We will tell an untold narrative: how women, and in particular women of color, changed America a century ago. Providing a rich and unexpected angle to the role of women in U.S. history, each short sheds light on the social and racial prejudices these women were up against, the emotional and physical roadblocks they overcame, their successes and failures, the men who supported them on their journeys, and what we can learn today from their persistence to overcome obstacles that may still impede women’s and girls’ successes today.
16th April 2020:
Watch the 5 Short Films
(Running Time Approx 50 mins)
UNLADYLIKE2020: Bessie Coleman - First African American Woman Aviator
UNLADYLIKE2020: Grace Abbott - Social Worker Pioneer, Champion of Children, Immigrants, and Women’s Rights
UNLADYLIKE2020: Maggie Lena Walker - First African American Woman Bank President
UNLADYLIKE2020: Ynés Mexía - Accomplished Latina Botanist
UNLADYLIKE2020: Anna May Wong - Trendsetting Movie Star and Fashion Icon
We would suggest starting the films at 6.30 PM (EST) / 11.30 AM (UK) to be ready in time for the Q&A.
2. Join for the Live Q&A
7.30 PM (EST) / 12:30 AM (UK): RSVP HERE
Featuring Alice Quinlan (Impact Operations Producer), In Conversation with Charlotte Mangin (Series Creator, Executive Producer, Writer and Director), with the participation of Kathy Leichter (Impact Producer - Two Suns Media)
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Charlotte Mangin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and the creator, producer, and director of UNLADYLIKE2020. She spent five years on the production staff of National Geographic Television & Film, reporting from the jungles of the Amazon to the Himalayan Mountains, and five years as a story producer for PBS’s award-winning series Wide Angle. Mangin was Series Producer for America By the Numbers, a PBS series telling underreported stories about America’s changing demographics, and for Humanizing America, a digital shorts series profiling the diversity of the American experience today, distributed by NBCNews.com.
Kathy Leichter is an award-winning documentary producer, director, and impact producer, working in television and independent film for over thirty years. She has extensive experience designing and implementing successful audience engagement campaigns for documentaries, and has produced over 300 impact events across the country on issues such as racial and economic justice, climate change, mental health, women, civil discourse, juvenile justice, and Jewish identity. For more information, please go to: http://www.twosunsmedia.com/
Connecting with #StayHomeWatchTogether: Why watch UNLADYLIKE2020 now?
➔ To be inspired by the stories of diverse women, especially women of color, who were changemakers and have been left off the pages of history
➔ To demonstrate the obstacles women overcame over 100 years ago and whose
legacy endures and inspire women today
➔ To reflect on the power of courage, community organizing, and leadership during
times of crisis
Engage & Connect
Before Watching UNLADYLIKE2020
What does “unladylike” mean to you?
What are innovative ways injustices are addressed in society today?
After Watching UNLADYLIKE2020
Discuss what was inspiring about the lives of the women featured in UNLADYLIKE2020?
What obstacles did the women overcome to achieve their goals?
Are there connections between the historic time we are living through with the global pandemic and the times the women lived through in UNLADYLIKE2020?
How did the women featured in UNLADYLIKE2020 lead?
How were you unladylike today?
To learn more see the film’s website @ http://unladylike2020.com/
Films are released on youtube.com/americanmasters every Wednesday from March 4th, to kick off Women's History Month in the US, to August 26, 2020, Women's Equality Day, the day the 19th Amendment granting U.S. women suffrage, was signed into law.
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