Maisie Crow – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

ZURAWSKI V TEXAS – Review by Liz Braun

October 20, 2024October 20, 2024 Liz Braun Abbie Perrault, Amanda Zurawski, Amber Nicole Thurman, Center for Reproductive Rights, documentary, Dr. Austin Dennard, Ken Paxton, Lindsey Graham, Maisie Crow, Molly Duane, roe v wade, Samantha Casiano, Zurawski v Texas

Near the end of the documentary Zurawski v Texas, a legal expert says that the fight for reproductive rights in America is nationwide because, “This is what happens when you ban abortion — and it’s not what people think.” What happens when you ban abortion includes infant and maternal death, maternal infertility, and unspeakable illness, suffering and loss, as the film shows. Directed by Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, Zurawski v Texas is a beautifully constructed film about the fight undertaken by some brave women and a fearless attorney to sue the state of Texas in an attempt to regain reproductive rights. The plaintiffs went forward on behalf of women everywhere, mostly in the hope of sparing others the pain they were put through. The most troubling thing about Zurowski v Texas is that the people who most need to see it won’t see it. This is a film that should be required viewing in high schools nationwide.

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AT THE READY – Review by Sandie Angulo Chen

October 12, 2021October 15, 2021 Sandie Angulo Chen At the Ready, Border Patrol, Criminal Justice Club, documentaries, El Paso, high school students, Maisie Crow

At the Ready is an easy sell for those who find something uniquely fascinating about the state of Texas, and in particular its border towns. The fact that there are high schools in Texas that offer law enforcement courses and criminal justice clubs in which students compete in mock raids, hostage negotiations, active-shooter situations, and other law enforcement scenarios shouldn’t come as a surprise; it’s Texas. What is surprising, is that the documentary isn’t about an all-White high school in a red swath of the State; it’s about a club at predominantly Hispanic (nearly all the students are cued as Mexican American) Horizon High School in El Paso.