Women’s Voices Interview May 16: Filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Jen McGowan Monday, May 16 2011

Tune in to Women’s Voices at 7:00 PM Pacific Time on KZYX Monday May 16 for an interview with two filmmakers, Emmy award winning Dayna Goldfine, and Jen McGowan who will screen films at the upcoming Mendocino Film Festival June 3-5. I’ve just taped  an interview with Dayna, who has, with her husband Dan Geller, been making documentary films for more than 25 years, including Ballets Russes (available on Netflix, by the way) and Isadora Duncan: Movement from the Soul as well as several other award winning documentaries. Something Ventured, the Geller/Goldfine film to be shown at 2 PM Saturday, June 4 at the festival, is a fascinating, quirky weaving of the stories of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs from the 1950s to the 1970s, and follows their stories into the present, with insightful, revealing, and often funny interviews. In spite of egos, personalities, and enormous risk, the people in these films intrepidly created companies like Apple, Cisco Systems, Atari, Genentech and other icons of our day. This film is fascinating and fast paced – and one of the reasons I love the documentary form. Can hardly wait to see more of their films.

Both women will be part of a panel discussion on Saturday at 11 AM at the festival: Women Behind the Camera, discussing the role of documentary and narrative women directors in the industry. Jen McGowan, who began her career in acting at NYU, will screen a short narrative film, Touch, as part of the Short Films program, screening Friday and Sunday. I’m looking forward to speaking with Jen, and learning about her plans for her first feature film. 

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Barbara Berg, Author of Sexism in America on Women’s Voices December 14 Friday, Dec 11 2009

Barbara J. Berg, author of Sexism in America

Join me on Monday December 14 at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time on www.kzyx.org for an interview with author and feminist historian Barbara Berg, Ph.D. about her new book, Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future. In this provocative new book, Barbara Berg  exposes society’s current acceptance of sexism in some of its most traditional yet insidious forms–she explores the last two women’s movements in the United States, and analyzes how sexism is perpetuated in popular culture in the 21st century. Sexism in America reveals the cultural and structural sexism that prevails today as it takes us through an exposé of  battles women still face as they continue their struggle for true gender equality. Issues facing women today include health insurance inequity, the right to reproductive freedom, the rise in infant mortality, teen pregnancy, heart disease and diabetes in women, and sexually transmitted diseases in adolescent girls, along with rampant workplace discrimination and continuing wage disparity. This should be a fascinating and topical show!

Barbara J. Berg is the author of The Crisis of the Working Mother, Nothing to Cry About, and The Remembered Gate: Origins of American Feminism. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Yale Medical School, Columbia University’s Physicians & Surgeons, and has written for the Baltimore Sun, Ladies’ Home Journal, Ms., the New York Times Magazine, Parents, the Washington Post, and Working Woman. She is a nationwide lecturer and has appeared on the CBS Morning Show, CNN, and Oprah.

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