Key West NOW Women’s Film Fest

Key West NOW Women’s Film Fest

Five Wednesdays in March

By Women, About Women, For Everyone

Key West – Five fabulous films are on the docket as the Second Annual Key West NOW Women’s Film Festival opens Wednesday, March 2 at the Tropic Cinema. Ana DuVernay’s 2012 award-winning film, “Middle of Nowhere” begins the festival with an intimate glimpse into the life of a Black nurse whose husband is incarcerated. This stellar film acts as a link between February’s Black History Month and March’s Women’s History Month. 

The second film, “Salt of the Earth” (March 9th), is the 1955 classic from Herbert Beberman of the women in a New Mexico mining community who strike when the men are barred from union activity. 

“The Beaches of Agnes” (March 16th) is the whimsical 2008 self-portrait of Agnes Varda, the renowned director and a leading light of the French New Wave. 

“Daughters of the Dust” (March 23rd) ranks as one of the most significant films of the late 20th Century. Directed by Julie Dash, the 1991 experimental film tells of the 1902 migration of a coastal Gullah community, looking for a better life in the North. 

The final Wednesday’s film (March 30th) is the inspiring “Whale Rider.” A young New Zealander Maori girl challenges tribal custom and seeks to inherit her father’s role as chief.

The Key West Chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) promotes woman’s rights to reproductive health care, fairness in education and employment, freedom from violence, justice for LGBTQIA citizens and life without racism.

All films will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available online or at the door. For everyone’s safety, covid protection policy requires attendees show a negative PCR done within the past 72 hours or a completed vaccination document and to wear masks.

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