Madelyn Osur
Film Library
As an ongoing commitment to build community around film, we welcome you to explore a catalog of titles that have been shown at the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival over the last 35 years. These films celebrate the drive, spirit and diversity of women, while sharing the stories and experiences of those often unheard or unseen.
Ndiphilela Ukucula: I Live to Sing
Some of the world’s brightest new opera stars are emerging from the black townships of South Africa. This documentary musical follows three such students as they confront everything from tuberculosis to racial politics.
Snowflake
Once a little African boy got a letter. In the letter he found a snowflake made of paper. He liked it so much that he wished to see it in reality as he wondered what real snow looks like.
Small
After a long courtship online, Amy has finally invited Bill over for dinner so they can at last meet in the flesh. There’s just one small problem…
Tough Love
TOUGH LOVE chronicles the lives of two parents with cases in the United States child welfare system as they attempt to prove to the courts that they deserve a second chance to be parents.
Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything?
A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids and a mother who is determined that it’s best to take care of everything herself.
Discovering Dominga
When 29-year-old Iowa housewife Denese Becker decides to return to the Guatemalan village where she was born, she begins a journey towards finding her roots, but one filled with harrowing revelations. Denese, born Dominga, was nine when she became her family’s sole survivor of a massacre of Mayan peasants. Two years later, she was adopted by an American family. In Discovering Dominga, Denese’s journey home is both a voyage of self-discovery that permanently alters her relationship to her American family and a political awakening that sheds light on an act of genocide against this hemisphere’s largest Indian majority.
Bringing It Home
Filmmakers question why hemp, a crop with many widespread benefits, cannot be grown in America.
Blackfish
The first film since Grizzly Manto show just how nature can get revenge on man when pushed to its limits.
American Promise
Filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson follow their son and his best friend through the U.S. educational system. Though both boys start out at the prestigious Dalton School, circumstances later force one into a public high school.
American Commune
Sisters Nadine Mundo and Rena Mundo Croshere return to the Farm, the legendary commune where they were raised, to explore why it was founded, how it worked, and why it fell apart.
All of Me
A story of love, loss and last resorts Through the personal stories of three severely obese women who choose weight-loss surgery, All of Me shines a fresh light on the causes, challenges, and intense psychological struggles surrounding obesity in our society, as well as our attitudes and prejudices towards the obese.
After Tiller
After Tiller is a feature-length documentary film that goes inside the lives of the last four doctors in America who openly provide third-trimester abortions.
Library Policy
Films are available to borrow for all local residents of the Pikes Peak Region. Up to THREE FILMS (3) may be checked out at one time for up to TEN (10) DAYS.
These DVDs are the property of Rocky Mountain Women’s Film. Use is authorized for private home screenings only. Reproduction or public showings of these films, in whole or in part, are strictly prohibited. If you are interested in showing a film to a larger audience, please contact RMWF to make arrangements with the appropriate distributor and/or filmmaker.
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- Individual Membership
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Suggested donation $50
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