The 12th Annual Women’s Film Festival, was held in Brattleboro, Vermont, March 7-23, and celebrated women’s lives through film and the visual arts.

The festival opened with "Reno: Rebel Without A Pause", a documentary that chronicles over-the-top New York comedian Reno's stand-up show. Both hilarious and sad, Reno describes her morning of September 11th, and from there takes on American patriotism and the war on terrorism.

The festival screened over twenty films in areas as diverse as women firefighters ("Some Real Heat"), the healing power of physical challenge ("Uphill All The Way", "One In Nine"); and domestic violence ("Cowards"). A mini-festival of classic and recent films by Agnes Varda, called the grandmother of modern French cinema, was be a special feature of the 2003 festival.

Films were chosen to be as entertaining as they are enlightening, and there were many award-winners in the 2003 line-up. Among them were "Georgie Girl," by Annie Goldson and Peter Wells, a film that focuses on the unlikely journey of Maori transsexual Georgina Beyer from farm boy to cabaret performer to newly elected Parliament member in New Zealand; "Mai’s America", by Marlo Poras, documenting a young Vietnamese student’s homestay in rural Mississippi; "Ruthie And Connie", an unconventional valentine by Deborah Dickson about two Jewish lesbian grandmothers; Michel Moyse’s"Cowards," a multiscreen work about a couple locked in a destructive relationship.

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