Award-winning documentary producer to present ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ at Rice Nov. 4

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Award-winning documentary producer to present ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ at Rice Nov. 4

HOUSTON – (Oct. 28, 2015) – Mary Dore, an award-winning American documentary producer who brings an activist perspective to her films, will take part in a screening and discussion of her 2014 documentary “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” as part of Rice University’s Gray/Wawro Lecture Series Nov. 4.

Presented by Rice’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, the talk is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Who: Mary Dore, award-winning documentary producer.

What: Gray/Wawro Lecture Series event featuring screening and discussion of “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.”

When: Screening and discussion at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4. A reception will precede the screening at 5:15 p.m.            

Where: Rice University’s BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC), first-floor auditorium, 6500 Main St. Parking is available in the BRC garage located on Dryden Road between Main and Travis streets.

“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often-brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971, according to the film’s makers. The documentary takes the viewer from the founding of the National Organization for Women, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation — from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, shortened W.I.T.C.H. Combining dramatizations, performance and archival imagery, the film recounts the stories of women who fought for their own equality and in the process created a worldwide revolution, the filmmakers said.

Through the support of Melanie Gray and Mark Wawro, this lecture series recognizes health as a matter of physical and social well-being and highlights gender as a key factor determining opportunity and quality of life. Each lecture brings to Houston a leading scholar whose work inspires deeper understanding of the gender features that underlie urgent health concerns and fosters public conversation that can prompt informed action toward a more just world.

The event is free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, RSVPs are required.  RSVP at https://signup.rice.edu/DoreGWLS.

Members of the news media who want to attend should RSVP to Jeff Falk, associate director of national media relations at Rice, at jfalk@rice.edu or 713-348-6775.

For a map of Rice University’s campus with parking information, go to www.rice.edu/maps.

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Related materials:

Dore bio: www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/thefilmmakers.