Equality Now, a leading international Ngo dedicated to using the law to promote women’s equality, will hold its annual Make Equality Reality Gala in November.
The evening will feature a unique program of art, advocacy and entertainment to inspire activism and to celebrate the power words have to help Make Equality Reality.
This year’s gala will honor international best-selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and feature the second annual Changemaker Award presented by Gucci and Chime For Change to author and activist, Scarlett Curtis.
Event Chairs include: Susan Chokachi, Angelica Fuentes, Asha Jadeja, Chandra Jessee, Karen Lehner, Elisabeth Moss, Heather Pulier, Sue Smalley, Jennifer Allan Soros, and Gloria Steinem. Host Committee Members Include: Mo Ogrodnik & Matt Bardin, Agunda Okeyo, Paula Ravets & Paul Reiser, Julie Scelfo, Sheetal Sheth & Neil Mody. Honorary Host Committee Members Include: Carmen Ejogo, O-t Fagbenle, Nisha Ganatra, Bethany Joy Lenz, Aasif Mandvi, Laura Marano, Vanessa Marano,...
The evening will feature a unique program of art, advocacy and entertainment to inspire activism and to celebrate the power words have to help Make Equality Reality.
This year’s gala will honor international best-selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and feature the second annual Changemaker Award presented by Gucci and Chime For Change to author and activist, Scarlett Curtis.
Event Chairs include: Susan Chokachi, Angelica Fuentes, Asha Jadeja, Chandra Jessee, Karen Lehner, Elisabeth Moss, Heather Pulier, Sue Smalley, Jennifer Allan Soros, and Gloria Steinem. Host Committee Members Include: Mo Ogrodnik & Matt Bardin, Agunda Okeyo, Paula Ravets & Paul Reiser, Julie Scelfo, Sheetal Sheth & Neil Mody. Honorary Host Committee Members Include: Carmen Ejogo, O-t Fagbenle, Nisha Ganatra, Bethany Joy Lenz, Aasif Mandvi, Laura Marano, Vanessa Marano,...
- 10/24/2019
- Look to the Stars
What it's about: New England, 1983. Wild, troubled boarding school girl falls for working class boy and brings him to South America to score coke. Then reality hits. Hard. Inspired by true events. About the filmmaker: I began writing this project when I was in grad school. I picked it up again with the help of my husband, Matt Bardin, and we worked to weave together our personal stories within the limits of a cinematic genre. We wanted to explore the contrast between the dismal prospects of the local young people in a faded industrial New England town and the entirely different privileges and pressures at the elite school in their midst. I’ll never forget how the harsh spotlight of getting caught introduced me to the darker side of human nature as a close group of friends scrambled to preserve college admissions and family reputations. I grew up in Williamstown,...
- 4/17/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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