Sudbury Indie Cinema is screening award-winner Analogue Revolution on March 5 in honour of International Women’s Week.
Director Marusya Bociurkiw will be in attendance at the 7 p.m. screening.
Bociurkiw is a storyteller, theorist and professor of media theory at Toronto Metropolitan University, where she teaches courses in media studies, social justice media and documentary production, and conducts research in the areas of feminist/queer archives, affect theory, media activism, and migration studies.
She is also an award-winning filmmaker and author. She has directed 10 films, and is author of six books including, most recently, Food Was her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter (Caitlin Press/Dagger Editions).
Her most recent film, the award-winning documentary This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine, screened in 12 countries and was translated into three languages.
Her books have won and been shortlisted for several awards including Kobzar Award, Lambda Literary Award and Independent Publisher Award.
This award-winning feature documentary explores how Canadian feminist storytellers from the 1970s to the 1990s used advanced media to document women’s issues.
Analogue Revolution is about a world-changing and sophisticated communications network that resulted in almost 1,000 feminist journals and newspapers and dozens of radio shows, film festivals and film/video collectives across Canada.
From Halifax to Vancouver, feminist storytellers of the 1970s to 1990s took hold of cutting-edge analogue media technology to document everything from racism in the women's movement, to how to insert a diaphragm.
The film features mediamakers like Studio D’s Bonnie Sherr Klein (Montreal/Vancouver) and Sylvia D. Hamilton (Nova Scotia); print collectives like Womonspace News (Edmonton) and Our Lives: Black Women’s Newspaper (Toronto).
This IWD event is organized by Sudbury Indie Cinema. It is part of their monthly series, #WomenInFilmWednesday celebrating its 10 th year- now the longest running programme of the region’s first independent cinema. Created to address a recognized bias in the film industry, the series has highlighted the work of women directors often inviting a Q&A with the director immediately following the screening.
Special this year, in addition to the film screening, the organizing committee has shortlisted local 25 feminists/feminist organizations to honour at next Wednesday’s event. This year’s IWD edition is sponsored by YWCA-Sudbury and Laurentian’s Faculty of Arts.