3.01.2002

Women's History Month 2002

       

Barbara Sonneborn
Barbara Sonneborn's "Regret to Inform" is discussed below.

Women's History Month 2002
Women's Trials: Women's Triumphs


Walter J. Brown Media Archives
& Peabody Awards Collection
Screenings all events are free and open to the public



"WOMEN AND ISLAM"
Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 5:30 p.m. - Georgia Museum of Art
This program will begin with a screening of Peabody Awards Collection programs depicting the family life and religious life of American Muslims. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion featuring Muslim women from UGA and the Athens community. The panelists will respond to the film and discuss the lives of American Muslims in the wake of the tragic events of September 11. The audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and to engage in the discussion.
For more information, call 583-0212.


"MISS FAT & BEAUTIFUL"
Wednesday, March 27, 2002 - 5:30 p.m. - Georgia Museum of Art
Jerusalem-born documentarian Tali Shemesh's film follows three contestants in the 1997 Miss Fat and Beautiful contest held in Be'er Sheba, the capital of Israel's Negev Desert. Twenty women, each weighing between 176 and 308 pounds, compete for the title. The three contestants share their dreams and tragedies as the camera watches them throughout preparations, rehearsals and the actual contest. This was Shemesh's first feature-length film and was shown in prime time on commercial TV in Israel.
(1997, 50 minutes). Peabody entry number 98024 DCT.
For more information, call 542-7360.


BARBARA SONNEBORN
Monday, March 4, 2002 - 7:30 p.m.
Tate Student Center Theatre
(reception at 6:45 p.m., Tate Gallery)
Barbara Sonneborn will show and discuss her
Peabody Award-winning film,



"REGRET TO INFORM"
(1999, 72 minutes) Peabody entry number 20114 DCT.

On her 24th birthday, Barbara Sonneborn answered a knock
at her door. A soldier of the United States Army spoke: "We
regret to inform you..." Her husband Jeff had died in Vietnam.
Twenty years later, Sonneborn journeyed through the country
where he fought and died. Regret to Inform is the story of her
personal odyssey. It is also the story of American and
Vietnamese widows from both sides of the conflict who speak
openly about the men they loved and about how war changed
their lives forever.



Other women's history programs were screened during the 2001 Women's History Month celebrations.

Programs screened by Media Archives are also available for viewing in the
University of Georgia Libraries Media Department.

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