Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
A special presentation of Independent Lens on October 1 and 2, 2012 at 9 PM
Watch part one online through October 8 and part two through October 9.
A landmark transmedia project featuring a four-hour PBS primetime national and international broadcast event (check local listings),
a Facebook-hosted social action game, mobile games, two websites,
educational video modules with companion text, a social media campaign
supporting over 30 partner NGOs, and an impact assessment plan all
inspired by Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, the widely acclaimed book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide was
filmed in 10 countries and follows Kristof, WuDunn, and celebrity
activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle
Union, and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring,
courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted,
and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care,
education, and economic empowerment for women and girls. The linked
problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based
violence, and maternal mortality — which needlessly claim one woman
every 90 seconds — present to us the single most vital opportunity of
our time: the opportunity to make a change. All over the world women are
seizing this opportunity.
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a four-hour PBS primetime documentary film and national broadcast event inspired by the widely acclaimed book of the same name by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
Girl at New Light Crèche in Kolkata, India
Photo by Joshua Bennett
Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows
Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane,
Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to
tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe
oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being
fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for
women and girls.
The linked problems of sex
trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal
mortality — which needlessly claim one woman every 90 seconds — present
to us the single most vital opportunity of our time: the opportunity to
make a change. All over the world women are seizing this opportunity.
The series is part of the Women and Girls Lead initiative, spearheaded by ITVS in partnership with CPB and PBS. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/half-the-sky/