hip-hop: beyond beats and rhymes

Join us for the third and final film in the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival social screening series this Wednesday, March 28 at 1PM PT/4PM ET.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes filmmaker Byron Hurt

The event, which takes place exclusively online, will feature special guests Jimmie Briggs, founder and director of Man Up, and Dr. Kaila Story, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Louisville.

Participants can join for free by signing in with Facebook or directly on the site, interacting with other viewers and panelists in real-time, while watching the film. Viewers can comment, ask questions, take polls, and even express their feelings about what they’re watching through a variety of tools on the site. This is an entirely new way of experiencing documentary films and it is inherently social. Continue reading →

The Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival will host three social screenings (Taking Root, Troop 1500, and Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes) during the month of March.

In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Women and Girls Lead presents a month-long online film festival featuring a collection of documentary films by prominent independent filmmakers. These films showcase extraordinary women and girls on the front lines of changing the world. As part of the festival we will be hosting online social screenings of three films: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai, Troop 1500, and Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. The screenings will take place on Wednesdays March 14, 21, and 28 at 1PM PT/4PM ET.
Continue reading →