Now in its 8th year, Women In Media – Newark\u2019s international Women\u2019s History Month Film Festival continues to educate about, and advocate for global issues facing women. \u201cWomen In the World,\u201d the theme of the 2017 film fest, will focus on independent films that illustrate the resilience and determination of women worldwide to triumph over adversity and will include a panel of speakers on this topic. This will be the first year that this exciting, free film festival will be shared with Monmouth University\u2019s audience.<\/p>\n
Films screened during the event include SOLD <\/strong>– a narrative, feature film adaptation of the globally acclaimed novel by Patricia McCormick. Based on true stories, SOLD<\/strong>, is the story of Lakshmi who journeys SOLD<\/strong> is directed by Academy and Emmy award-winner, Jeffrey D. Brown, \u00a0There will be a post screening panel with about Human Trafficking<\/strong> with Wincey Terry Bryant and Susan Panzica, NJ Coalition Against Human trafficking<\/em>;\u00a0 Dr. Guia Calicdan-Apostle, Vice President, The HEAAT Foundation<\/em>;\u00a0 Keyla Munoz, FBI<\/em>; Det. Shawn Murphy, SVU, Monmouth County Prosecutor\u2019s Office<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now in its 8th year, Women In Media – Newark\u2019s international Women\u2019s History Month Film Festival continues to educate about, and advocate for global issues facing women. Films screened during the event include SOLD – a narrative, feature film adaptation of the globally acclaimed novel by Patricia McCormick. Based on true stories, SOLD, is the story of Lakshmi who journeys from a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel\/prison called Happiness House in Kolkata, India. There will be a post screening panel with about Human Trafficking with Wincey Terry Bryant and Susan Panzica, NJ Coalition Against Human trafficking; Dr. Guia Calicdan-Apostle, Vice President, The HEAAT Foundation; Keyla Munoz, FBI; Det. Shawn Murphy, SVU, Monmouth County Prosecutor\u2019s Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40802223141,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"America\/New_York","_EventStartDate":"2017-04-03 19:30:00","_EventEndDate":"2017-04-03 21:00:00","_EventStartDateUTC":"2017-04-03 23:30:00","_EventEndDateUTC":"2017-04-04 01:00:00","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[6],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artseries":[213,15],"arts":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-40802209587","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artseries-artful-explorations-of-gender","artseries-arts-at-monmouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802209587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/40802209587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802223141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802209587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802209587"},{"taxonomy":"artseries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artseries?post=40802209587"},{"taxonomy":"arts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/arts?post=40802209587"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=40802209587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfrom a pastoral, rural village in Nepal to a gritty brothel\/prison
\ncalled Happiness House in Kolkata, India.\n<\/p>\n
\nExecutive Produced by two time Academy Award winner, Emma Thompson,
\nProduced by Jane Charles, Co-Produced by Katie Mustard and Written by
\nJoseph Kwong and Jeffrey D. Brown.<\/p>\n