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Abortion Helpline: This is Lisa

Glicker-Milstein Theatre

  • Directors: Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Mike Attie
  • Type: Shorts
  • Year: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Length: 13 minutes
  • Screening: Feb 29 03:00 PM

At the Philadelphia abortion helpline, counselors arrive each morning to the nonstop ring of calls from women and teens who are seeking to end a pregnancy but can’t afford to, demonstrating how economic stigma and cruel laws determine who has access to abortion in America.

Q&A to follow screening 

Filmmaker Bio: The EMMY® nominated filmmakers Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater have collaborated on award-winning documentaries for national and international broadcast, as well as wide-spread educational and advocacy use, since 1990. Attie and Goldwater’s collaborative work has been recognized with a prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts, a Leeway Transformation Award, and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Media.

Mike Attie is an assistant professor at the University of the Arts and director of the film major program. Mike was a 2014 Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellow and was named one of The Independent’s “10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014.” His feature documentary, In Country, was supported by the Sundance Documentary Film Program, IFP and the Points North Institute. His 2019 short, Moment to Moment premiered at Full Frame and won jury awards at IFFBoston and the San Francisco DocFest. Mike holds an M.F.A. in documentary film from Stanford University.

 

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