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By Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
The WFCC Prize was awarded by the Women Film Circle Critics at the Rated SR Socially Relevant Film Festival in New York City on March 21st, for the best feature by or about women. The prize was conferred by WFCC Jury presenters Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi and Chloe Glickman for director Jessica Vale and her documentary, Small Small Thing. Which delves into the tragedy of seven year old Liberian
rape victim Olivia Zinnah who died in 2012 from her injuries, despite
five years of medical treatments and the intervention of the Liberian
government.
...The prize marks an important moment for this year’s festival,
since Vanya Exerjian was an actress and producer, who passed away ten
years ago and the festival was founded in her memory, and 2014 also
marks the 10th anniversary of the Women Films Critic Circle
organization. The WFCC is made up of 65 women film critics and scholars
from around the country and internationally, who are involved in print,
newswire, radio, online and TV broadcast media, in the belief that
women’s perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized
fully.
The five women film critics from the organization who acted as jurors for the Vanya Exerjian award are: Chloe Glickman, Karen Benardello, Jhoanna Robledo Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi and Debra Wallace...
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Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi writes for King’s Road Magazine and Shockya. Chiara is a member of the Women Film Critics Circle.
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