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February 15 Ft Lauderdale-Davie
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March 24 Middleton CT
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An Idea Worth Sharing!

When Producer Abigail E. Disney and Director Gini Reticker began to work on Pray the Devil Back to Hell the story of the Liberian women in white was hardly known outside of Liberia. The press had been focused on the brutal civil war that griped the country, but had passed over the women’s role in bringing peace to Liberia. Now, over two years after the film's premiere, the inspirational story is touching audiences globally.

Leymah Gbowee has now emerged as a leader in international conflict resolution.

Secretary Clinton mentioned PRAY in her Keynote Speech at the 58th National Prayer Breakfast.

Grassroots groups, like Mothers In Charge, have used the story to connect with, and energize their members. The film is being used in university classrooms in Iraq. Recently the film even became available through Walmart.

The women's story inspired artist Joan Snyder’s painting "WOL" (standing for “Women of Liberia”) and a high school art project in the US.

From the United Nations to bloggers, people are talking about the film’s message of nonviolence, and the courage and convictions of Leymah and the Liberian women.

As we hear about these stories we often share them on our blog, and on Facebook. In this newsletter we have chosen to share a recent story from our friends at Auburn Theological Seminary, as well as more information about projects that have been inspired by PRAY.



Starting Conversations


Auburn Theological Seminary has been using Pray the Devil Back to Hell as part of their series “Tell Me A Story: Women’s Experience as a Resource for Social Change.” The series utilizes women’s films “to engage communities to think critically and creatively about how their faith helps them initiate social change.”

Recently, Lisa Anderson, the Director of Women’s Multifaith Programs at Auburn, shared with us some of the impact that PRAY is having on their work.

PRAY was screened as part of an adult education program at Fort Washington Collegiate Church in New York for a congregation beginning to discuss social justice issues. The film screened in their sanctuary following worship, and the multi-racial, intergenerational crowd of women and men noted that they felt motivated to work towards social justice in a way they had not considered before seeing the film.”

Lisa then shared two exchanges that occurred after the screening:

“Gloria was excited by the fact that women’s stories and experience was driving the engine of social change on a grand scale. ‘I think sometimes we become too sophisticated for our own good,’ she reflected. ‘We wait for experts to identify what the problems are in our communities, or to tell us how to fix them, but look at these women! They trusted their own experiences as mothers who were tired of watching their children suffered and so they TOOK A STAND! I think we need to start listening to each other more in this church, and we really need to listen to the women because they know."
For another quote from the screening, and to learn more about how Auburn is using PRAY to start conversations click here >>


Inspiring Action


The impact of Pray the Devil Back to Hell led to a collaboration with the WNET program WIDE ANGLE to expand the stories of women’s roles in times of war.

This collaboration became Women, War & Peace, a bold new mini-series co-produced by WNET and Fork Films to challenge the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain and to place women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security. It is slated for broadcast on PBS in Fall 2011.

Click here to visit the WIDE ANGLE blog for more on Women, War and Peace!
Peace is Loud the organization inspired by PRAY, kept busy this year with projects that have focused on peace-building.
Movements Towards Peace is one of the important aspects of Peace is Loud. What producer Abigail Disney often heard after most screenings of PRAY was that people had no idea the Liberian Women’s Movement even happened. Movements Towards Peace is a section of the Peace is Loud website that attempts to amplify movements that so often go unheard.

The Many Voices One Story is an annual project that celebrates Rutgers’16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence by chronicling amazing women between November 25th, International Day Against Violence Against Women and Dec. 10th, International Human Rights Day. Each woman submits a reflection, in her own words, on peace-building. This campaign seeks to symbolically link violence against women and human rights and to emphasize that such violence is a human rights violation.

Voices of Peace is the most ambitious Peace is Loud project to date. PRAY producer Abigail Disney, documentary photographer, Alissa Everett, and Leymah Gbowee held workshops around the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in which they screened PRAY and followed it by a riveting and emotionally powerful conversation lead by Leymah. A woman who attended the conference was quoted saying, “These women are not different than us. We can! After this film, I know we can have a team, together and strong.”

Visit the Peace is Loud website for more information: www.PeaceIsLoud.org


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The movie has been seen in 41 states; shown 100s of times throughout the world at festivals, schools and community groups; and been nationally broadcast on Discovery's Planet Green.

Now you can share Sadie and Safiyah's journey talking to food activists, farmers, storekeepers and their friends as they explore their place in the food chain. The DVD comes packed with extras including a post-screening Q&A and music video with Nona Hendryx.

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