On the July 18 WBGO Journal...
Women In Media - Newark is an organization that educates the public about issues affecting the lives of women using film, video and new media as its platform.
WIM-Newark's’ 2026 Women's International Film Festival runs July 30 through August 7. The 17th annual festival is free but you must register for the screenings that will take place at various venues.
WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with WIM-Newark's Executive Director Pamela Morgan and filmmakers Nance Ackerman and Kavery Kaul.
Nance Ackerman is a celebrated documentary photographer and filmmaker who has been creating magic for more than 30 years. She's covered the war in the Middle East, Afghanistan, AIDS crisis in Africa, and terrorism in Borno State.
Ackerman's The Delivery Line: Midwives on the Frontlines screens Thursday, July 30 at 5pm at the Cranford Theater.
The Delivery Line reframes and re-examines some of our most overwhelming global issues — migration, crime, poverty, climate change and war — through one of life’s
most joyous experiences: childbirth. From Central Asia and Africa to the Americas, the ilm follows midwives on the front lines, as they help women give birth in the most
challenging of environments. Right now, women are dying in childbirth in shockingly high numbers, and midwives are often their only hope for survival. Whether in Taliban controlled Afghanistan, on the Mexican border, or Toronto’s city streets, the midwife’sgoal remains the same: to protect the life of both mother and child. And with each birth comes hope for change.
Kavery Kaul is an award-winning Indian-American filmmaker. Her documentaries challenge who “we” are and who tells that story. Founder of riverfilms, her works have been featured at film festivals all over thew world. Her cultural documentaries include the theatrically-released One Hand Don’t Clap.
Kaul's The Bengali screens Saturday, August 1 at 10am at the Newark Public Library.
In The Bengali, Fatima Sheik embarks upon an unlikely quest when she travels from New Orleans, the city of her birth, to India, home of her grandfather Shaik Mohamed Musa. An African-American writer whose family has lived in Louisiana for four generations, she travels with Kolkata-born filmmaker Kavery Kaul to a part of India where no African-American (or American) has ever gone. Her search for the past is fraught with uncertainty, as she looks for her grandfather’s descendants, the land he claimed to own, and the truth behind the stories she grew up with.
You can SEE the Doug Doyle's entire interview with Pamela Morgan and filmmakers Nance Ackerman and Kavery Kaul below:
