Our first film in the thinkBIG January film festival will be "Señorita Extraviada." The issue about which this film will help to begin the discussion is Violence Against Women.The screening is today, January 9, at 7pm in Building 260 (the corner of the quad nearest to the clock tower) in room 113.
Synopsis:
"Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman" tells the story of the hundreds of kidnapped, raped and murdered young women of Juárez, Mexico. The murders first came to light in 1993 and young women continue to "disappear" to this day (2005) without any hope of bringing the perpetrators to justice. Who are these women from all walks of life and why are they getting murdered so brutally? The documentary moves like the unsolved mystery it is, and the filmmaker poetically investigates the circumstances of the murders and the horror, fear and courage of the families whose children have been taken. Yet it is also the story of a city of the future; it is the story of the underbelly of our global economy.
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The thinkBIG conference aims to inspire our generation to take action and help end the injustices and inequalities facing millions of girls and women around the world. The conference will take place February 1-3, 2008. Registration is FREE for Stanford students, and for every student who attends the conference, $10 will be given to a women's organization working internationally.
For more information about the conference and to register, please visit thinkbig.stanford.edu. To learn more about this film series, contact Ciara Segura at csegura0@stanford.edu. Event co-sponsored by Dance Marathon.
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