Events Woodstock Vermont Film Series: Breaking the News
Date
Breaking the News
December 2 & 3, 2023 | 3:00PM
2023. Directed by Heather Courtney, Princess Hairston, and Chelsea Hernandez. 99 minutes. Not rated.
Q&A with filmmaker Princess Hairston following the Saturday screening.
Showings take place at 3:00PM in the Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater.
Tickets are $15 person/$12 Billings Farm member.
Frustrated by the dearth of women and people of color in the media, in 2020 a motivated group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists banded together to buck the status quo and launch The 19th* News. Based in Austin, Texas, the digital news start-up is named after the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote, but with an asterisk to acknowledge the Black women and women of color who were omitted. The 19th*’s work is guided by the asterisk–asking who is overlooked in the story and how they can be included.
"Breaking the News is an immersive, crowd-pleasing, candid portrait of a start-up experiencing growing pains, roadblocks, and ultimately success in changing the paradigm and business model for news.” ~ The Film Stage
Contact
Billings Farm & Museum
Phone:
802-457-2355
53 Elm Street
Woodstock, VT 05091
United States
43.630262, -72.512994
