Date: Sept 1, 1998
Contact: Patricia Sandberg Gavin
PLUM ORCHARD COMMUNICATIONS, Inc.
540-788-1705
MINERVA FILM FESTIVAL & AWARDS
Washington, DC– The Minerva Film Festival & Awards will be held November 6-8, 1998 at the Women In Military Service For America Memorial at the Main Gate, Arlington National
Cemetery.
“The Festival is the first to celebrate the changing roles women have played in military affairs,” according to Dr. Linda Grant De Pauw, noted historian and founding director of the Minerva Center. Dr. De Pauw is the foremost academic scholar in the field of military women’s history and a professor of history at George Washington University.
“The goal of the festival is to showcase work of studios and encourage independent filmmakers to produce and write scripts about the place of women in military activities throughout history,” said De Pauw. “We plan to award filmmakers who enter the Festival the specially commissioned Minerva statue, the work of noted sculptor Eileen Barry. Minerva is the Roman goddess of war and wisdom who is revered as a symbol of sound strategy, cool courage, military skill, and networking.”
“We are eager to support this innovative initative of the Minerva Center by hosting the Minerva Film Festival & Awards at the Women’s Memorial to recognize the film industry for its portrayal of women in the military services and our nation’s defense,” said Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught, (USAF-Ret), President of the Women In Military Service For America Memorial Foundation.
The Minerva Film Festival and Awards provide the first public event where industry professionals have the chance to connect with authors, veterans, investors, artists, and the public in the magnificent setting of Washington’s newest Memorial and its 190-seat theater. The Film Festival will include guest lectures by artists, investors, filmmakers, academics and entertainers about the role of women in the military portrayed by films in the festival.
Since 1983, Minerva’s scholarly journal, MINERVA: Quarterly Report on Women in the Military, and its series of books have made it a foremost publisher for academic authors and
other scholars producing work in women’s military studies. The Minerva Center publishes Minerva’s Bulletin Board, covering news on military women around the globe, and sponsors H-MINERVA, an Internet resource networking an international group of experts. The Foundation’s Women’s Military Press recently published its first book, In Defense of the Nation: Servicewomen in World War II.
Tickets are available by contacting Box Office Tickets at 1-800-494-TIXS. Tickets can also be ordered over the web at http://minervacenter.cdmail.biz. Proceeds from the Film Festival will benefit the Minerva Center, a nonprofit 501(c)3 educational foundation. Proceeds from the Sunday Brunch will support the Women In Military Service For America Foundation.
A Three Star Pass is available for $200 and includes admission to all screenings and a Saturday evening Gala ticket. A Two Star Pass is available for $75 on either Saturday or Sunday and includes admission to all screenings in a single day. A One Star Pass is available for admission to a single screening. An additional 200 tickets will be available for the Saturday Gala at a cost of $100 each. Sunday Brunch tickets for $30.00 are available at the Women’s Memorial and the Foundation offices or via BOX OFFICE TICKETS.
Seating to all screenings is general admission. A schedule of screenings is available on the Web at http://minervacenter.cdmail.biz or at the Women’s Memorial Foundation office but is subject to change based on the submission of films to the festival.
For more information on the Minerva Film Festival & Awards, to purchase tickets, or to submit films to the festival, please visit the Minerva Center Website at http://minervacenter.cdmail.biz or contact Jennifer Finstein at the Women’s Memorial Foundation at 703-533-1155 or visit their website at http://www.wimsa.org.
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PLEASE CALL FOR PHOTOS OF MINERVA AWARD IF YOU WISH TO RUN WITH STORY. THESE CAN ALSO BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE WEB.
FACT SHEETS ON THE WOMEN’S MEMORIAL ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FOUNDATION’S PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICE.OR AT THEIR WEBSITE.