Women Films

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Klezmer is Eastern European Jewish folk music. In other parts of the country, klezmer seemed to disappear and then was revived. But in Philadelphia, the Hoffman family never…

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

"Elaine and Susan Say Goodnight to Mishegas" is a short playful documentary that tells the story of a song, explores how a significant local klezmer tradition is extended (and…

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking…

Eva Nuanez: Memories of My Musical Life

Eva Nuanez: Memories of My Musical Life

Eva Nuanez: Memories of My Musical Life

Eva was born in 1921 in Berwind, Colorado. A coal miner’s daughter, she grew up without formal musical training. She taught herself how to play the violin by ear, playing and…

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Film of the singer/faith healer and folk artist Fannie Bell Chapman from Centreville, Mississippi. Footage includes Chapman and her family singing and praying during church…

Firehouse Women

Firehouse Women

Firehouse Women

A half-hour 1998 film by Ellen Walter about a North Carolina firehouse that’s been converted into a restaurant and the women who sing gospel music there.

Grand Generation

Grand Generation

Grand Generation

A portrait of six older Americans, each with their roots in a unique cultural heritage and each with a powerful perspective on the nature of aging.

Grandma Moses

Anna Mary Robertson Moses better known as "Grandma Moses" did all of her painting from remembrance of things past. She liked to sit quietly and think, she once said, and remember…

Grandma's Bottle Village

Grandma's Bottle Village

Grandma's Bottle Village

At 84, Grandma Prisbrey is a vivacious guide to her brilliant houses crammed with objects scavenged from the county dump.

Hamburger and Dolma

Hamburger and Dolma

Hamburger and Dolma

Over preparations of a sumptuous Armenian meal of stuffed vegetables (dolma), five Armenian-American women discuss their feelings of alienation from their ethnic community and…

Hazel Dickens

From the coalfields of West Virginia to the factories of Baltimore, Hazel Dickens has lived the songs she sings. Interviews with Hazel and fellow musicians such as Alison Krauss,…

His Eye is on the Sparrow

His Eye is on the Sparrow

His Eye is on the Sparrow

Ethel Caffie-Austin, daughter of the coalfields, is West Virginia\'s "First Lady of Gospel Music." This program features Ethel performing a range of spirituals, hymns and…

I Always do My Collars First

I Always do My Collars First

I Always do My Collars First

Following four dynamic Cajun women in Southwestern Louisiana as they go about their daily lives while telling and showing us what ironing means to them. Ironing is a nurturing,…

I've Endured: The Music and Legacy of Ola Belle Reed

I've Endured: The Music and Legacy of Ola Belle Reed

I've Endured: The Music and Legacy of Ola Belle Reed

I've Endured: The Music and Legacy of Ola Belle Reed documents the life and music of Appalachian singer, songwriter, and banjo player Ola Belle Reed through archival materials and…

Joy Unspeakable

Joy Unspeakable

Joy Unspeakable

Joy Unspeakable examines the question, what does it mean to be Pentecostal, through the documentation of three types of Oneness Pentecostal services in Southern Indiana: a…

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