AWFJ highlights films made by and about women:

Friday, October 14:

• Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution - First Run Features, 107 mins. - A documentary following an experiment in a small French village, where the mayor makes the school lunch menu organic in order to improve local children’s health and create a blueprint for the growing organic food revolution.
• The Maid - Elephant Eye Films, 95 mins., limited NY - Starring Catalina Saavedra, this sharply comedic drama is about a live-in maid who’s desperate to hold on to her status in the home of a well-to-do family in Santiago, Chile.
• The Ministers - Maya Entertainment, 90 mins. - A female NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
• Black Dynamite - Apparition, limited
• Law Abiding Citizen - Overture Films
• New York, I Love You - Vivendi Entertainment /Palm Pictures, 110 mins. - Faith Akin, Mira Nair, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman are among the women who‘ve directed sequences for this 12-segment feature focusing on New York City as the film’s main character.
• The Stepfather - Screen Gems
• Where the Wild Things Are - Warner Bros., - Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book brought to the screen.