The Violence Prevention Center is excited to be celebrating 25 years of service to the community. In honor of this, it is hosting a “LUNAFEST” film festival featuring short independent films for, by, and about women.
Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 26 at Arrowhead Center for the Arts, 10 films from four to 11 minutes each will tell stories of women including a 52-year-old woman who breaks into the male-dominated world of cable car operators, a table tennis champion, an AIDS patient, a foreign film translator finding her own story on a subway line, a midwife, an Alzheimer’s sufferer struggling to keep her independence, and two star-crossed lovers curbing their raging hormones via the quickest form of communication available: the telegraph.
The cost of the film festival is $5.
“It is an opportunity to come together in our community and celebrate the stories, talents and perspectives of women,” said Jodi Yuhasey of the Violence Prevention Center. “We hope you will join us…and please tell others about it. We really want to be inclusive and bring people together to share in this honoring and celebration.”
LUNAFEST is a fundraising film festival dedicated to promoting awareness about women’s issues, highlighting women filmmakers, and bringing women together in their communities. This is the 10th annual LUNAFEST highlighting women as leaders in society and it covers topics such as women’s health, motherhood, cultural diversity, and breaking barriers.
All proceeds from LUNAFEST will benefit the Breast Cancer Fund and the Violence Prevention Center in Grand Marais. LUNAFEST was created and is funded by LUNA, The Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, and has raised over $360,000 for the Breast Cancer Fund and over $570,000 for other women’s nonprofit organizations.
According to LUNA, the films “celebrate the unique, touching and inspirational roles of women in our local, national and international communities. One hundred percent of all LUNAFEST proceeds are donated to charity.”
The films are most appropriate for people who are middle-school-age and older.
For more information, contact Jodi Yuhasey at the Violence Prevention Center at (218)387-1262 or email her at hope4u@boreal.org.
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