03/09/2021
Make way for women’s talent
The talk series that accompanies the Miu Miu Women's Tales showcase is back at Giornate degli Autori this year. Alongside the screening of two short films by female filmmakers at the Venice Casino, the talks consist of three conversations with some of the most interesting actresses, stage performers and filmmakers today, in a tribute to women's talent in the 21st century. Now going into its tenth year, the program brings together female professionals with different backgrounds, all of whom share the curiosity and enthusiasm to bring their own stories of women in the arts to the Lido.
The two women filmmakers presenting shorts #21 and #22 this year are Isabel Sandoval and Kaouther Ben Hania. The shorts will be screened just before the film in competition premiering at Giornate 2021, Madeleine Collins by Antoine Barraud, in the Sala Perla on Saturday, September 4th at 16:45. To attend the talk with the two directors of the shorts, the time and place are Sunday, September 5th at 10 am, in the Veneto Region's space at the Hotel Excelsior.
Isabel Sandoval presented Lingua Franca at Giornate in 2019. Her short, #21, Shangri-La, set during the Great Depression, is a haunting, sensuous exploration of the fantasies of a second-generation Filipino female farmhand. For Kaouther Ben Hania, it's another return to Venice, after the success of The Man Who Sold His Skin, which premiered in Horizons last year, the first Tunisian film nominated for an Oscar®. Her short, #22, I And the Stupid Boy, examines the power plays between men and women, sexuality, and shame, in a pungent, deeply feminist tale.
On the afternoon of September 5th, at the Italian Pavilion (Hotel Excelsior), Ciara Bravo and Patricia Allison will be the dialoguing duo. The American actress Ciara Bravo, whose credits include TV series like Big Time Rush and Red Band Society (the US version of Braccialetti rossi), will be talking with British actress Patricia Allison, a familiar face as Ola Numan in the hit Netflix series, Sex Education. At 15:00 at the Hotel Excelsior, in the Italian Pavilion.
The third and last conversation in the talk series, on Monday, September 6th at 11 am, at the Veneto Region's space at the Excelsior, like the first talk, will feature speakers Kiki Layne and Sarah Gadon. All of twenty, Kiki Layne already has under her belt roles in films of the caliber of The Old Guard and If Beale Street Could Talk, for which she won the Black Reel Award for best actress. Her partner on stage Sarah Gadon, acclaimed for her roles in three David Cronenberg films, A Dangerous Method, Cosmopolis, and Maps to the Stars, will share her experiences on the sets of other major films like Enemy by Denis Villeneuve and Dracula Untold by Gary Shore.
All three talks will be moderated by British journalist Penny Martin, editor-in-chief of the women's magazine The Gentlewoman.
