Key West NOW Women’s Film Fest Opens Screenings Each Wednesday in March

By Women, About Women, FOR Everyone

Key West – The Fourth Annual Women’s Film Festival opened to an eager crowd March 6 with “I Will Follow,” Ava DuVernay’s directoral debut from 2010. “It was great to see so many turn out for this fabulous film,” said Festival coordinator Andrea Henley Heyn. “And each Wednesday in March will bring another great film to the Tropic, all starting at 6 p.m.!”

Coming up on Wednesday, March 13 will be “A New Leaf,” the first film directed by comedienne Elaine May. She and Walter Matthau star in this comic classic from 1971. A hilarious send-up of a playboy whose life has come to a halt for lack of money. He’s now seeking a rich wife he can murder. She is the naïve, sweet-natured and obsessive botanist who falls for him. Pandemonium ensues.

French New Wave’s pioneer Agnès Varda’s film, “One Sings, the Other Doesn’t,” screens Wednesday, March 20th. Varda follows two friends as they negotiate 14 years of radical change in women’s lives in 1970s France. The final film, “I Am a Noise,” will be shown on Wednesday, March 27th and documents the life of folk music legend and activist icon Joan Baez through the many phases of her long and productive life.

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. The Tropic Cinema is an award-winning, independent, non-profit theater showing popular, classic, foreign, regional and experimental films.

All showings begin at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are available online at tropiccinema.com or at the door.

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