| The Supreme Price (75 min) Nigeria/US |
[watch trailer] |
Sunday 10/19, 7:45 PM (Session 12)
Director/Producer: Joanna Lipper
Description:
The Supreme Price traces the evolution of the Pro-Democracy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase the participation of women in leadership roles. Following the annulment of her father's victory in Nigeria's Presidential Election and her mother's assassination by agents of the military dictatorship, Hafsat Abiola faces the challenge of transforming a corrupt culture of governance into a democracy capable of serving Nigeria's most marginalized population: women.
Biography:
Joanna Lipper is an award-winning filmmaker. Her work as a documentary filmmaker has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, ITVS, Britdoc Foundation, the Tribeca Gucci Documentary Fund and Chicken & Egg Pictures. She is a Lecturer at Harvard University where she teaches Using Film for Social Change in the Department of African and African American Studies. Lipper is the author of the nationally acclaimed book "Growing Up Fast," which documented the lives of teen parents in Pittsfield, MA. Her photography has been published and exhibited in the US.
Contact Information:
e: kfitzpatrick@WMM.com
w: www.wmm.com
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