Name: The Long Friday
Start: 2018-01-10T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-01-10T20:00:00-05:00
Location: SVA Theatre

The Long Friday

Social Design is the application of design methodologies to solutions for complex human problems. Design for Social Innovation at SVA is the first MFA program in Social Design, with an experience-based curriculum of discipline and rigor. Our graduates are pioneering solutions to the major issues of our time, working in the most enlightened and inspiring organizations.It is a rapidly growing field with exciting career opportunities. Global corporations use it to ignite creativity and commitment within their cultures, foundations embed it into their efforts to end poverty and improve human health. Governments and NGOs use it to innovate new approaches, erase the boundaries of internal silos and step around archaic bureaucratic processes. Designers use it to create lives for themselves filled with purpose and impact. Learn more athttps://dsi.sva.edu/

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<H2 CLASS="p1">In 1975, the women of Iceland went on strike for equality, and won. Join us to find out how they did it.</H2>
<H3 CLASS="p1">One day in 1975, ninety percent of all the women in Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes, refusing to work, cook or take care of the children from noon to midnight. Initially laughed off as “a huge joke” by many men, the strike transformed the role of women in their society.</H3>
<H3 CLASS="p1">For the ninth year in a row, Iceland ranks first in gender equality – while the U.S. has dropped to an abysmal 49th. Because this is such a timely and important issue, MFA Design for Social Innovation at SVA is hosting an evening with Emmy award-winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan, director of The Long Friday, a documentary in progress about this untold story of ordinary women who managed to do the extraordinary. Joining us will be two of the feisty, hilarious organizers of the strike, Elisabet Gunnarsdóttir, and Guōrún Hallgrimsdóttir.</H3>
<H3 CLASS="p1">Please join us for a sneak preview of film clips and a rare conversation with women who created and lived this moment of history –– the day the women of Iceland brought their country to its knees.</H3>
<H3 CLASS="p2">Tickets are $12, all proceeds will be donated to complete the documentary.  </H3>
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Director Pamela Hogan was raised by a single mother, an advertising executive in Boston who was paid half the wages of her male co-workers for the same job. Hogan’s independent film Looks like Laury Sounds like Laury was hailed as one of “The Best TV Shows of 2015” by The New York Times. She was Co-creator, with Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker, of the groundbreaking series Women, War & Peace and Director of the first episode, I Came to Testify, about the Bosnian women who changed international law by testifying about wartime rape for the first time in history. Seen by 12 million PBS viewers, the series won the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow Award for best TV documentary on international affairs, and a Television Academy Honor. I Came to Testify won the ABA’s Silver Gavel for excellence in fostering the American public’s understanding of law. Full bio: https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/pamela-hogan
Co-producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir’s company, Krumma Films, has produced numerous acclaimed films on the Icelandic women’s movement, including Women in Red Stockings about the 1970s feminist wave and The Kitchen Sink Revolution, on the movement’s 1980s evolution. A filmmaker and activist, Hrafnhildur has served as president and vice president of the gay alliance of Iceland, Samtökin´78. As president of the filmmakers association FK since 2009, she directed its transformation into a labor union. She has also been chairman of the board of Nordisk Panorama alliance of shorts and documentary filmmakers based in Copenhagen and Malmö. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989 and resided in California for more than 15 years, working on numerous documentary films such as Alive in Limbo (ITVS) with Erica Marcus and Tina Naccache (Locarno Human Rights Special Mention and the Spirit Award from BIFF); and Senorita Extraviada by Lourdes Portillo (Special Documentary Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival).
 
The Long Friday is produced by Alternate Image Productions and co- produced by Krumma Films, in association with Fork Films.
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