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    Opening, closing films set for Women+Film VOICES Festival

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    DENVER --

    The 4th Women+Film VOICES Film Festival, produced by the Denver Film Society, announced today its full Festival program and schedule. The complete lineup of films for the Festival, which runs March 18-March 23, is available at denverfilm.org.

    Inspired by the theme of International Women's Day, which is celebrated globally every March, VOICES showcases a high profile, women-centric mix of documentaries, feature presentations and short films. The festival also includes the VOICES Mobile Film Fest, The MacSpa Mobile Movie Making Workshops, Young Filmmakers Workshop @VOICES, salon discussions and many in-person guests to highlight thought-provoking, inspirational stories of women from around the world.

    The Women+Film VOICES Film Festival opens Tuesday, March 18 with the documentary "Sepideh." Director Berit Madsen will join the audience for a post-screening Skype discussion. The Festival will close with the comedy "Obvious Child" from director Gillian Robespierre. Both films include receptions and will mark their Colorado premieres after making their debuts at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

    "Starting fairly humbly eight years ago at the Starz Denver Film Festival, it's been exciting to watch the growth of this program," says founder of Women+Film Barbara Bridges. "Our audiences have embraced the combination of powerful films, receptions and discussions that create a community of filmgoers at our monthly screenings and festivals. In our fourth annual VOICES Film Festival, we're hearing from both local and international filmmakers-all of them telling stories that we can relate to and enjoy." 




    Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95

    Friday, January 17, 2025
    Actor Laurence Olivier, center, with his wife Joan Plowright, left, and actress Lauren Bacall at the U.S. premiere of Lord Olivier's only Shakespearean production made exclusively for television, "King Lear," in New York, May 3, 1983. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez, File)

    Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

    In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England, surrounded by her loved ones.

    "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire," the family said. "We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being."

    Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

    From the 1950s to the 1980s, Plowright racked up dozens of stage roles in everything from Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" to William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." She stunned in Eugene Ionesco's "The Chairs," and George Bernard Shaw's totemic two female roles "Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan."

    "I've been very privileged to have such a life," Plowright said in a 2010 interview with The Actor's Work. "I mean it's magic and I still feel, when a curtain goes up or the lights come on if there's no curtain, the magic of a beginning of what is going to unfold in front of me."

    The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor.

    Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, her mother ran an amateur drama group and Plowright was... Read More

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