Key West NOW Women’s Film Fest Two More Terrific Movies 

By Women, About Women, FOR Everyone

Key West – The Second Annual Women’s Film Festival is heading into the backstretch, with two terrific films for the last two Wednesdays of March. Julie Dash’s monumental “Daughters of the Dust” will be screened on March 23rd. A 1902 crisis in a close-knit Gullah Geechee community on the St. Helena Island, off the coast of South Carolina, reveals the heart-wrenching decision to move North to escape the Jim Crow South. “Daughters of the Dust” was the first feature film directed by an African-American woman. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Festival and Arthur Jafa won the Best Cinematography prize there for his gorgeous work. “Daughters of the Dust” was designated by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry for its important contributions to American cinema.

Closing the month-long festival will be the landmark “Whale Rider,” whose young protagonist won the Best Actress Oscar at the age of 13. Niki Caro directed this 2002 drama about a Maori girl seeking to become the tribal leader, the first female to attempt the difficult test.

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

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