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.
Uphill All The Way
As part of their correctional school programs, five troubled teenage girls ride bikes from Canada to Mexico. As they struggle up the mountains of Canada and Colorado, they mature in ways visible, thought provoking and completely unexpected.
Triumvirate
Based on the filmmaker’s award-winning memoir “Beneath A Tall Tree,” This film is a powerful documentary about the filmmaker’s search and reunion with her birth mother and grandmother.
Which Way Home
The personal side of immigration as child migrants from Mexico and Central America risk everything to make it to the US riding atop freight trains.
Writer of O
A creative documentary on the hidden author of the world-famous, erotic novel, Story of O. Known for forty years as Pauline Réage, the author chose at 86 to reveal herself as Dominique Aury, a mild-mannered literary editor for Gallimard, the most prestigious French publishing house.
Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo
This film recounts the compelling life story of Dekyi Tsering, the mother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The Tibetan people call her “Gyalyum Chemo” or “Great Mother.” During the course of her long and extraordinary life, she gave birth to sixtee…
Woman of the Cloth: Fabric Artist Penny Sisto
The spirit of this fabric artist softens the traumatic content of her quilts.
Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution
For the first time on film, three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the Dalai Lama tell the story of one of the great movements of nonviolent resistance in modern history. In 1959, an estimated 15,000 unarmed Tibetan women took to the stree…
Women Of the Wall
Feminism arrived at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in the form a devout women’s prayer group started in 1989. Despite verbal and physical threats these women fought for the right to pray in this holy space. In spite of a landmark court ruling this summe…
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
Suggested donation $20 - Group Membership
Suggested donation $50
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