Key West NOW Women’s Film Fest Opens Wednesday, March 1 By Women, About Women, FOR Everyone

Key West – The first of five fabulous films is on the docket this Wednesday, March 1, as “The Woman King” opens the Third Annual Key West NOW Women’s Film Festival at the Tropic Cinema here. Starring Oscar Award-winner Viola Davis and directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood, this action-packed docu-drama tracks the saga of woman warriors in Dahomey, fighting the Portugese slave trade in the 1820s. This films bridges February’s Black History Month and March’s Women’s History Month. 

The festival will continue each Wednesday with “Born in Flames,” the dystopian docu-fiction film about post-modern 1980s revolutionary US on March 8th, Ida Lupino’s convent school comedy “Trouble with Angels” on March 15th, and French New Wave icon Agnes Varda’s most influential film, “Cleo from 5 to 7” on March 22rd . Closing the Festival on March 29th will be “The Janes,” documenting the women’s health collective which secured women safe abortions in pre-Roe Chicago. Following this screening, two of the original Jane members will be available by Zoom for discussion.

“This year’s Film Festival continues the tradition of a wide variety of quality films by women,” said festival coordinator Andrea Henley Heyn. “There is something for everyone, something thought-provoking, something revealing a unique point-of view on universal topics.”

All showings begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Tropic’s spacious Carper Theater. Tickets are available online at https://www.tropiccinema.com or at the door.

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.

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