‎Speak Up (2017) directed by Amande Gay • Reviews, film + st • Letterboxd

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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

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OUVRIR LA VOIX D'AMANDE GAY

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 RECLAIMS THE NARRATIVE "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 ?.

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BgraphyAwardsDirectorWrerActrs(2020) Amande GAY is a filmmaker, aofemist activist, and scholar who divis her time between rearch and creatn.

BLACK FRANPHONE WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR NARRATIVE AMANDE GAY'S 'SPEAK UP'

Amande Gay regularly appears as a speaker on Aofemism, tersectnaly or adoptn.

AMANDE GAY ? SPEAK UP

Keep track of how much of Amande Gay’s work you have seen. The film Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix French) by French filmmaker, scholar, and aofemist Amande Gay, will be shown at the IU Cema on Febary 21. 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 has had her own experience wh beg silenced.

Eventually, Gay seized the mera and started workg on the documentary Speak Up 2013, supported by producer, edor, and sound engeer Enri rry on the project, Amande first met wh forty-five women, nductg prelimary terviews before selectg the twenty-four women we see on screen. 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) Center of Excellence of the French Embassy at Indiana Universy is proud to -host the vis of Amande Gay and Enri Bartolucci Febary 20-24, 2022.

Elena 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 ? 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. ”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.