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PASSIONATE POLITICS: THE LIFE AND
WORK OF CHARLOTTE BUNCH - FILM
A Joyce Warshow Film
Produced & Directed by Tami Gold
Passionate Politics traces Charlotte Bunch's lifelong work for
social justice: from her early years as a civil rights activist to her
engagement with feminist and political theory as a member of the lesbian
separatist group The Furies and on to her induction into the National Women’s
Hall of Fame, her receipt of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from
President Clinton and her place as one of the leading advocates in the
international women’s rights movement.
Best known for
her international work guided by the phrase “Women’s rights are human rights,”
Charlotte’s story is told in part by women from the Caribbean, South America
and Africa who have long worked with her to shape the global human rights
agenda and extend the interpretation of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (ratified in 1948) to include the rights of women.
Archival
footage and photos document the trajectory of her activism over four decades,
while excerpts from letters illuminate her determination to create a more just
society.