Without Exception Films, Los Angeles, CA (2022)

10/28/2021

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The United States of America is known as the world’s melting pot, and every year on October 28 National Immigrants Day gives us a reason to reflect on just how unique that distinction is among the world’s 195 sovereign nations. As Americans, we are proud of our long history of welcoming immigrants from all parts of the world and value their contributions that add zest to our nation’s blend of cultures, customs, and traditions. ❤️🌱
📸 by: Nitish Meena (Unsplash).
#NationalImmigrantsDay

10/23/2021

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Representation matters.
#SheMustCount 🌟❤️🌱
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#representationmatters #socialdocumentary #documentary #womenempowerment #feminist #equality #womensrights #empowerment #womensrightsarehumanrights✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #feminism #girlpower #womensrightsarehumanrights #equalrights #womensupportingwomen #womensrightsadvocate #strongwomen #women #humanrights #superheroes #Herstory

10/22/2021

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Imagine a future free of gun violence. 💭

In October of 2019, we had the great honor of co-hosting an event for Sandy Hook Promise (@sandyhookpromise). Their mission is to end school shootings and create a culture change that prevents violence and other harmful acts that hurt children. Sandy Hook Promise has several programs in place currently to help address this issue. To learn more about how you can get involved, text PROMISE to 79775. Let’s make the promise to protect our kids from gun violence.

📸 by: Jose Alonso (Unsplash).
#ProtectOurKids

10/20/2021

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What they said!

10/20/2021

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What they said!
#EducationMatters

10/19/2021

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Activist/Storyteller Spotlight 🌟

Nazanin Boniadi (@nazaninboniadi) is an Iranian-born, SAG and AACTA Award-nominated actress and renowned activist. Her TV and film credits most notably include How I Met Your Mother, Homeland, Counterpart, and Hotel Mumbai. She next stars in Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series.

Nazanin has partnered with Amnesty International since 2008 to campaign for the rights of disenfranchised populations across the world, with a focus on the unjust conviction and treatment of Iranian youth, women and prisoners of conscience. Her opinions have been published in global media outlets including The Washington Post, CNN, Defense One and The New York Times.

Her advocacy work has taken her to the German Bundestag, the UK Parliament, and the US Capitol.

The Program for Torture Victims awarded Nazanin their 2014 City of Second Chances Award. In 2018, she was selected by People Magazine as one of their ’25 Women Changing the World.’ She is also a recipient of the 2020 Freedom House Raising Awareness Award, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. 🌱
- Biography Provided by: Amnesty International.

#ActivistSpotlight #SheMustCount

10/18/2021

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#DidYouKnow most of the children wed in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018 were minor girls wed to adult men? Check out @unchainedatlast to learn more.⠀
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#EndChildMarriage #EndChildMarriageUSA #18NoExceptions

10/16/2021

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Women have a voice – it's up to others to listen 🎤✨#SheMustCount @femalequotient

10/11/2021

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Indigenous Peoples’ Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October, on October 11 this year, to honor the cultures and histories of the Native American people. The day is centered around reflecting on their tribal roots and the tragic stories that hurt but strengthened their communities. 🧡

Artwork by the talented @soni_artist.
#YouAreOnNativeLand

10/10/2021

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World Mental Health Day is observed on the 10th of October every year to raise awareness about the scale of su***de around the world and the role that each of us can play to help in preventing it. This day is organized by the World Federation for Mental Health. It is also supported by WHO, the International Association for Su***de Prevention, and the United for Global Mental Health. Enjoy a self-care day today, and remember that you’re never alone. 🧠💓

Photograph 1: Miguel Bruna.
#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealthMatters

10/08/2021

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A little louder for the people in the back, please. 👏
Looking to support women’s rights/empowerment organizations and activists? Check out the accounts below! There are so many extraordinary people working to create real, long-lasting change. Comment below any other organizations and activists who inspire you in this movement! ✨

@vowforgirls
@orchidproject
@equalitynoworg
@unchainedatlast
@blairimani
@theequalityinstitute
@seeher
@fflvindia
@missrepresentation
@niwrc
@phenomenal
@voterunlead
@femalequotient
@rebelgirls
@anotherwaynow
@justlikemychild
@girlrising
#SheMustCount

10/06/2021

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Inspiring Women Spotlight 🌟
Deb Haaland: Entrepreneur and one of the first two Native American women in the US House of Representatives.

The daughter of two veterans, Haaland is a 35th-generation New Mexican and a member of the Laguna Pueblo people. After moving around as a military kid, she put herself through college and gave birth to her daughter four days before graduating in 1994. The following year, she launched her own company, Pueblo Salsa, which she ran while caring for a baby and attending law school at the same time. (Wow.) Haaland has always been open about the challenges that she faced as a single mom and Native American — her official US House bio notes that both she and her daughter are still paying off student loans, and she’s also said that if she’d scored five points higher on the bar exam, her life would probably have gone a different way. Instead, she became the first woman elected to the Laguna Development Corporation’s board of directors and began advocating for environmentally friendly business practices. That led to a political path, and she became the first Native American woman to lead a state political party before successfully winning a US House seat in 2018. As a representative, Haaland has introduced several bills to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.

“I’m always gonna fight for folks. I think it’s any government’s obligation to make the lives of people better. That’s why we pay our taxes. We want good roads, we want solid bridges. We want nice playgrounds for kids to play in. We want safe communities. We don’t want our neighbors to go hungry. I know what a nice neighborhood is like, and I want people to be able to find success.”

Caption Text: ELLEVEST
#InspiringStories

09/30/2021

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Artwork By: @morning.star.designs (Alanah Jewell).
#EveryChildMatters 🧡

09/30/2021

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Artwork By: @morning.star.designs (Alanah Jewell).
#EveryChildMatters 🧡

09/29/2021

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#SmarterInSeconds: MMIR (Missing Murdered Indigenous Relatives)
featuring educators #FeministAdvisors @blairimani @misscorinne86 & survivor @beadingismedicine.
💭 “This describes the disproportionately high cases of violence toward Indigenous peoples in the form of abduction or killing.

Today is not only a day of remembrance but one of action to stop this atrocities from stealing our siblings. Learn more from these organizations: ❤️

Sovereign Bodies Institute
sovereign-bodies.org
@sovereignbodies

@MMIWhoIsMissing

@missing.murdered.natives

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
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Urban Indian Health Institute”

09/29/2021

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#SmarterInSeconds: MMIR (Missing Murdered Indigenous Relatives)
featuring educators #FeministAdvisors @blairimani @misscorinne86 & survivor @beadingismedicine.
💭 “This describes the disproportionately high cases of violence toward Indigenous peoples in the form of abduction or killing.

Learn more from these organizations: ❤️

Sovereign Bodies Institute
sovereign-bodies.org
@sovereignbodies

@MMIWhoIsMissing

@missing.murdered.natives

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
@NIWRC

Urban Indian Health Institute”

09/26/2021

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Activist Spotlight: Rachel Cargle 💗
After moving to New York City, Black feminist activist Rachel Cargle (@rachel.cargle) wanted to keep a connection with her native Akron, Ohio. Out of this desire, Elizabeth’s Bookshop and Writing Center was born. Elizabeth’s is designed to celebrate marginalized voices and will be a cultural center for the Akron community once indoor gathering is safe again. All proceeds of this social activists project go towards Cargle’s nonprofit the Loveland Foundation that makes mental healthcare accessible to Black women and girls.

“We try to give readers a map for ways they can bring more marginalized voices into their bookshelves.” - Rachel Cargle

Caption Text by. Prosperity Candle
#ActivistSpotlight

09/24/2021

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After a long day of filming in Boston, Director of Photography Sandra Garcia stretches out in the backseat of the production minivan. With remote doors, stow-and-go seating and plenty of room for our gear, minivans are our vehicles of choice when filming on location.
#WomeninFilm 🤍✨

09/23/2021

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By @theequalityinstitute ❤️
There are four main drivers of violence against women (VAW). These are expressions of gender inequality, which is the root cause of VAW (check out our previous post on this for more info on the 'gendered drivers').⁠⁠

To prevent VAW, we must address these drivers and gender inequality more broadly, and we can do this by taking action in the ways outlined above.⁠⁠

It’s important to remember that there are other intersecting drivers of violence for women of different identities, which are not listed in this post but are no less important in the path to an equal and safe future for all.⁠⁠

This post is specifically focused on violence against women. Research shows violence against women occurs at disproportionately high rates and is overwhelmingly perpetrated by men. However, it’s important to remember that people of all genders experience violence. There is a lack of research on how gender diverse people experience violence, and we must continue to build the evidence base in these areas to better understand and address this violence.

Slide content: Adapted from ‘Change The Story,' a framework for the prevention of VAW in Australia, developed by Our Watch, ANROWS, and VicHealth. For more, visit @theequalityinstitute and click the link in their bio.
#NoMoreViolence

09/22/2021

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Behind the scenes while filming a project on Child Marriage in the United States. Child marriage occurs when one or both of the parties to the marriage are below the age of 18. Approximately 248,000 children were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. The vast majority were girls wed to adult men, many much older.

Learn more about what is being done to fight child marriage in the US @unchainedatlast and @equalitynow. ✨
#DocumentaryStorytellers

09/21/2021

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International Day of Peace.
Created by the United Nations, this day is dedicated to strengthening the ideals of peace around the world, with a 24-hour commitment to
non-violence observed by different governments.
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“Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences
will always be there. Peace means solving these differences
through peaceful means; through dialogue, education,
knowledge; and through humane ways.”
— Dalai Lama.🕊

PHOTOGRAPHER CREDIT: Priscilla Du Perez.

09/17/2021

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Repost • @drjulie ❤️

“I wrote this a while ago to highlight the progress we need to make for both boys and girls in mental health. Today is #womensequalityday in the USA and I think improving how we treat and care for our sons as well as our daughters contributes to a better future for them all. What do you think?

I made this video some time ago but now the scenes from Afghanistan are reminding us how far the world has to go.”
#Storytellers #SheMustCount

09/15/2021

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“The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.”– Chen Shui-bian.

International Day of Democracy on September 15 allows us the opportunity to celebrate and appreciate our democratic society. It’s very easy for people who live in a free society to take their freedoms for granted. Yet, when freedom is absent, life includes unimaginable challenges that are often incomprehensible.

Today, let’s reflect on the history of democracy around the world, thank those who influenced the development of our government, and look for opportunities to promote and protect our own nation’s democracy.
#DemocracyMatters ✨🗳

PHOTOGRAPHER CREDIT: Phillip Goldsberry (Unsplash)

09/13/2021

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Local Ugandan camerawoman Nikissi Serumaga. She is currently working on VINTAGE OR VIOLENCE - A limited series podcast looking at the impact of 2nd hand clothes imported from America and Europe on Uganda's economy and youth. @2ndHandViolence 🌻🎥
#WomeninFilm