It’s Time to Represent the Real Me

It’s Time to Represent the Real Me

You can’t be what you can’t see!

Introduced by Anita Frank Goth, the editor of KVINFO’s web magazine

The documentary, Miss Representation, exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.

CBS and the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen have arranged an exclusive screening prior to the public release—be one of the first to see this powerful documentary before it hits theatres!

Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.

While women have made great strides in leadership over the past few decades, the United States is still 90th in the world for women in national legislatures, women hold only 3% of clout positions in mainstream media, and 65% of women and girls have disordered eating behaviors.

Stories from teenage girls and provocative interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics, like Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem build momentum as Miss Representation accumulates startling facts and statistics that will leave the audience shaken and armed with a new perspective.

Part of the official selection for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

The film is distributed by MissRepresentation.org, a call-to-action campaign that seeks to empower women and girls to challenge limiting labels in order to realize their potential, and to encourage men and boys to stand up to sexism. r women and girls to challenge limiting labels in order to realize their potential