...a documentary film about women changing the world in theatres nationwide. In the Washington D.C. at AMC Mazza Gallerie 7.
Thursday, March 5, 2009 is your chance to join us in recognizing the millions of powerful women like Hanh, Nada and Jacqueline who lead daily battles to improve their communities. A Powerful Noise takes you inside the lives of these women to witness their daily challenges and significant victories over poverty and oppression.
Thursday, March 5, 2009 is your chance to join us in recognizing the millions of powerful women like Hanh, Nada and Jacqueline who lead daily battles to improve their communities. A Powerful Noise takes you inside the lives of these women to witness their daily challenges and significant victories over poverty and oppression.
Hanh is an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam. Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war. And Jacqueline works the slums of Bamako, Mali. Three very different lives. Three vastly different worlds. But they share something in common: Power. These women are each overcoming gender barriers to rise up and claim a voice in their societies. Through their empowerment and ability to empower others, Hanh, Nada and Jacqueline are sparking remarkable changes. Fighting AIDS. Rebuilding communities. Educating girls.
Hanh learned that she had contracted HIV after her husband and daughter died from AIDS. Bouncing back from despair, she started a self-help group in Vietnam, called Immortal Flower, to give people living with HIV/AIDS a place for support, counseling and health care.
Nada is a working mother of three children. As a refugee, she survived the Bosnian War. Her women’s association, Maja Kravica, is helping ease hostilities between Serbs and Bosniaks in a
region marred by war crimes and massive destruction. Nada is building an agricultural cooperative to offer employment opportunities for war widows, and fair trade markets for families to sell their crops and livestock.
region marred by war crimes and massive destruction. Nada is building an agricultural cooperative to offer employment opportunities for war widows, and fair trade markets for families to sell their crops and livestock. Jacqueline, better known as “Madame Urbain” fights forc
ed labor practices in the slums of Bamako, Mali. Madame Urbain stands up for the rights of powerless girls who often are abused in the workplace or on the streets of the big city. Her organization, APAF, provides girls a basic education, teaches them vocational skills and places them in safe jobs.
ed labor practices in the slums of Bamako, Mali. Madame Urbain stands up for the rights of powerless girls who often are abused in the workplace or on the streets of the big city. Her organization, APAF, provides girls a basic education, teaches them vocational skills and places them in safe jobs. "Powerful Noise" takes you inside the lives of these women to witness their daily challenges and their significant victories over poverty and oppression. Their stories are personal yet illustrate larger issues affecting millions of marginalized women worldwide. A Powerful Noise is a meditation on the inherent potential of women to change the world.
On March 5, in honor of International Women’s Day, please encourage every woman – and man! – you know to attend A POWERFUL NOISE Live in movie theatres across the United States. This special one-night showing of the documentary, “A Powerful Noise,” will be followed by a town hall discussion with leading experts and celebrity activists simulcast live from New York to 440 movie theatres nationwide.*
Your presence is important to help CARE fill more than 120,000 theatre seats. Invite your friends, family and co-workers to attend the March 5th showing of what promises to be an inspiring night. You’ll learn how you can join a larger movement to empower women and girls to fight global poverty.
“A POWERFUL NOISE Live" is more than a night out at the movies, it’s a movement coming of age,” says Dr. Helene Gayle, president and CEO of the global poverty-fighting organization CARE. “You’ll be entertained but more importantly, when the lights go on, you’ll be energized with a better understanding of what you can do to empower women and girls around the world. Immediately following the film, I will be joined by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, CARE Advocate Christy Turlington Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and actress and activist Natalie Portman for a town hall discussion broadcast live into your theatre. The film’s executive producer Sheila C. Johnson will be on hand."
"A POWERFUL NOISE Live" is presented by CARE and NCM Fathom in partnership with ONE and the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. CARE is a leading humanitarian organization that fights global poverty by empowering women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities. Get involved at http://www.care.org/. Buy tickets now by clicking here, or visit http://www.apowerfulnoise.org/ for more information.
SHOWING AT THE FOLLOWING D.C. AREA VENUES:
Bowie Crossing 14 Bowie MD 20716
AMC Columbia Mall 14 Columbia MD 21044
Snowden Square 14 Columbia MD 21046
Germantown 14 Germantown MD 20874
AMC Owings Mills 17 Owings Mills MD 21117
SHOWING AT THE FOLLOWING D.C. AREA VENUES:
Bowie Crossing 14 Bowie MD 20716
AMC Columbia Mall 14 Columbia MD 21044
Snowden Square 14 Columbia MD 21046
Germantown 14 Germantown MD 20874
AMC Owings Mills 17 Owings Mills MD 21117
