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.
Homegoings
Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African-American funerals are brought to life.
Paris on the Water
After being offered a career- changing part, a former movie star is forced to reexamine her life. (Subtitled)
Out In The Night
They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a ‘Gang of Killer Lesbians.’
Our Forever Home
In OUR FOREVER HOME, Sandy explores the topic of foster parenting through the eyes of a close family friends, who have adopted three kids who were abandoned and raised in near destitute circumstances.
On Beauty
On Beauty follows former fashion photographer Rick Guidotti as he focuses his lens on people who are often excluded or misrepresented in mainstream media in an attempt to challenge conventional visions and to redefine notions of beauty.
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.
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.
Hours
Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm
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Cost
- Individual Membership
Suggested donation $20 - Group Membership
Suggested donation $50
Three or more people