Event celebrating female filmmakers is back, and bigger
''The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo'' (above) is one of the films playing in the International Women's Day Film Festival.
Linda Matchan - Boston Globe – Sunday 1 March, 2009
A few years ago Nicole Sheldon-Desjardins served in the Peace Corps in Cameroon, where they only celebrated three major holidays each year: Independence Day, Youth Day – and International Women’s Day, on March 8.
“I don’t really know why,” she said. “It was the one day when women march around the village. Schools are closed. Municipal offices are closed. It was a great time for women to step out from behind the cookfire and be celebrated.”
When she returned to the United States in 2006, she found herself wondering why the holiday had a much lower profile in America. Still imbued with the Peace Corps spirit and zeal, she decided to do something about it and start an International Women’s Day Film Festival in Boston…
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