On-Beauty Movie Screening 11/15/13

 

Movie poster for On-Beauty

Movie poster for On-Beauty

On Saturday, November 15, my group and I were lucky to be able to go
to a screening of the new short film, On-Beauty. On-Beauty was
directed by Joanna Rudnick. This short film was about the beauty of
difference. When we got to the theatre, we met a young lady named
Stephanie and she told our group that she was working for Positive
Exposure. She said there was an activity that we could do that related
to the idea of beauty in difference. She asked me to go outside and
hand out tickets with other volunteers before watching the movie while
my other group members went around the movie theatre asking people
what made them beautiful. After this, we all went inside to watch the
film.
The film followed a famous fashion photographer, Rick Guidotti, as he
went around photographing the beauty in the uniqueness of each person.
The film was about thirty minutes long and it focused on how the
differences in people are not worth being judged. They are in fact
worth being celebrated should be shown as beautiful. I felt that
though this movie didn’t really relate to women in the media, our
topic, it was a very moving and meaningful film. Everyone in society
is different, but many people are judged by how they look, losing
their sense of confidence. This movie really brought that out and gave
some people back that confidence.

Nubia Celis-Etienne

My name is Nubia Celis-Etienne and I am currently attending 8th grade at LREI, Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School, in New York City. The social justice topic my group, Jane, Katie, Kate, Kellin, and I, are focusing and dealing with is the portrayal of women in social media. We are all really passionate about this topic, and I believe that the way people see women in the media, especially in today's time, is either as weak and incapable, edited with Photoshop, or over sexualized and. This topic relates to girls like me, especially in my age group, because we grow up seeing these impossible standards of perfection in the media and many strive to achieve those looks and end up being scarred knowing they can never look like those enhanced models on TV. With my group, we strive to do as much as we can to show the world and those girls like us that perfection is an illusion. We want to show everyone what a real women looks like, without any retouching or photoshopping. 

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