Releasing October 15 and 17, 2008
AWFJ highlights films by and about women
Wednesday, October 15
- Frontrunners
Friday, October 17
- The Elephant King – Priority Films
- Filth and Wisdom – IFC, 81 mins.
- Max Payne – 20th Centuiru Fox
- Morning Light- Walt Disney Pictures, 90 mins.
- The Secret Life of Bees – Fox Searchlight, 110 mins. – Gina Prince-Bythewood wrote and directed this moving drama, based on the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, about a 14-year old girl (Dakota Fanning) who, longing to find out more about her deceased mother, runs away from rural South Carolina home and winds up in the care of a beekeeper (Queen Latifah) and her sisters (Alicia Keys, sophie Okonedo).
- Sex Drive – Summit Entertainment, 109 mins.
- Tru Loved
- W. – Screen Gems
- What Just Happened? – Magnolia Pictures, 113 mins.
- Who Does She Think She Is? – Artistic License Films, 84 mins. – Pamela Tanner Boll’s documentary focuses on five women artists struggling to balance their creative existence and need for artistic fulfillment with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood and economic survival.