In Montreal-based Ao-femist filmmaker, activist and journalist Amande Gay’s feature directorial but, Ouvrir la voix ( Speak Up ), women of Ain scent nverse about what means to be women of Ain scent today, belongg to a global Ain muny. By sharg their experienc and aspiratns for the future, they aim to reclaim ntrol of their own reprentatn. Per the filmmaker, the documentary was born out of her sire to “occupy public space and to expla why the tersectn of discrimatns faced by black women France and Belgium is as problematic as is polil.” A celebratn of the diversy of womanhood wh the global Ain diaspora, Gay lls the film her rponse to the need for black anphone women to reclaim their narrative, and challenge the supprsn of their voic, revealg the plexy and diversy of their liv and inti. Inspirg a nversatn through tertwed narrativ, Speak Up also exalts the...
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- AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE SPEAK UP
- AMANDE GAY
- OUVRIR LA VOIX D'AMANDE GAY
- AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE "SPEAK UP"
- BLACK FRANPHONE WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR NARRATIVE AMANDE GAY'S 'SPEAK UP'
- AMANDE GAY ? SPEAK UP
AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE SPEAK UP
Speak Up: Directed by Amande Gay. Wh Aiss Berg, Rebec Chaillon, Marie Julie Chalu, Many Chroniqu. [Ouvrir La Voix] SPEAK UP/MAKE YOUR WAY foc on our mon inti : "woman" and "black", whilst highlightg the diversy of Aopean diasporas. This documentary explor the tersectns of discrimatn, art and blackns. SPEAK UP/MAKE YOUR WAY is about black women reclaimg the narrative." data-id="ma * speak up amandine gay *
To this effect, filmmaker Amande Gay’s work — her films, wrg, activism, and rearch — aims to center whens and lonize the md. Traed soclogy, both France and Canada, Gay holds the cril tools to put nversatn different approach and methodologi to the analysis of the tersectn of race, genr, sexualy, and class.
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AMANDE GAY
Amande Gay. Director: Speak Up. (2020) Amande GAY is a filmmaker, aofemist activist, and scholar who divis her time between rearch and creatn. Acrdg to her, reclaimg the narrative is an act of emancipatn. Followg Speak Up -her first feature-length documentary on European Black anphone women released French, Belgian and Swiss theaters 2017 and Canadian theaters 2018, she is now preparg a send documentary, A Story of..." data-id="ma * speak up amandine gay *
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OUVRIR LA VOIX D'AMANDE GAY
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Gay has also paved the way for wir exploratns of Aopean inti France and Belgium.
AMANDE GAY RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE "SPEAK UP"
As a unterreactn, Gay ma sure to clu exprsns of spirualy and relign to also amplify femist Mlim voic. From her own experience as a wrer who has also prefaced the French translatns of bell hooks’ books, Gay knows the importance of a practice based re.
BLACK FRANPHONE WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR NARRATIVE AMANDE GAY'S 'SPEAK UP'
A meticulo artist, Amande Gay is also a rearcher who has voted her amic work to the nsequenc of lonial history, and more recently to ternatnal adoptn and race. This rearch has culmated her latt documentary, A Story of One’s Own, which Gay met wh French adopte, often racialized, who were born untri abroad. As a transracial adoptee herself, Gay has published a book at the crossroads of tobgraphy and say, ak to the genre of toethnography, lled Une Poupée en cholat (which has yet to be translated to English).
AMANDE GAY ? SPEAK UP
Filmmaker Amande Gay and producer Enri Bartolucci are schled to be prent for a nversatn morated by Dr. On Febary 23, Amande Gay will also be givg a lecture entled “Practicg Intersectnaly and Beg Actively Antiracist: Workg towards equaly and social jtice is a dirty job — are you still up for ? E""L tr ne prennent pas ta rage"Amande Gay ?.
For Cult MTL I terviewed director Amande Gay, you n read the full thg here: "I have to say that what I said about black sk and kky hair — you don’t want to see and you don’t want to hear , so you are gog to get two hours up your face. From Aofemist filmmaker Amande Gay, this powerful film is an evotive examatn of race, genr and showg here.