Join us for our first Virtual Movie night and discussion on The Great American Lie in partnership with Miss Representation Project.
Event is for FemCity Members Only and donation to the Miss Representation Organization is suggested.
Panelists : Sarah Hammond, Lola T. Small, Beth Boyd Bell, and Arnetta Yardborough
Once the film is available for viewing at 5:00 pm ET on Friday, 11/20, please start watching within 15 minutes or the viewing window will close. We will start the livestreamed panel, available in this same event window) at 6:45 pm ET following the conclusion of the film. You can enter the livestream by clicking on the bottom box on the right side of this screen after the film ends. At that time, the main viewing window will switch from the film to the livestreamed panel. You will be able to chat and send questions during the livestream panel.
The Great American Lie, which premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2019, aims to expose social and economic immobility, viewed through the lens of our gendered values.
“We need renewed economic and social mobility in this country,” said filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom. “I hope my film will spark a national conversation around how the elevation of stereotypically ‘masculine’ values has led to extreme social and economic immobility and how, if we elevate more ‘feminine’ values such as empathy, care, and community, we can fix some of these systemic inequities.”
We are currently living in one of the greatest periods of social and economic inequality in our nation’s history. Today, the top 0.1% of Americans own as much wealth as the bottom 90%. In 2017 alone, 82% of new wealth created went to the top 1%.
Meanwhile, one in five American children and one in eight American women live in poverty – despite us being one of the wealthiest countries on earth. Increasing inequality has created deep social, economic, and political divides. Clearly the status quo is not working.
The Great American Lie exposes how this inequality is rooted in our beliefs with the cultural pendulum swinging too far towards revering things we consider “masculine,” like individualism, power, and money, at the expense of things we consider “feminine,” like empathy, care, and collaboration.