{"id":418,"date":"2009-04-12T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/?p=418"},"modified":"2009-04-12T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T11:50:15","slug":"wmc-film-festival-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenandmedia.org\/ta\/wmc-film-festival-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"WMC Film Festival 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film festival was held from March 23rd to 26th at the Russian Cultural Centre at 3.00pm and 6.00pm each day. The following films were screened: Brick Lane by Sarah Gavron, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud and The Secret Life of Bees by Gina Prince-Bythewood.\u00a0The festival was open to the public and was an opportunity for the WMC to showcase a selection of films sensitive to social justice and women&#8217;s concern to a mixed audience of women and men as well as women activists and social justice advocates working at national as well as local levels. 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