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Launching a Documentary about Women’s Image in Media and Ads

RDFL December 8, 2014
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Fe-Male organization and in partnership with the Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering, launched a Documentary about women’s image in media and ads directed by Jad Ghoson and entitled “Image Upon Request”. The launching took place on Monday 8th of December at Unesco Palace, Beirut. After showing the documentary a discussion panel was conducted.
The documentary highlights the patriarchal tendencies in the Lebanese society and how this tendency reflects itself in the media, through extracts from different TV series and ads and video clips and billboards and some Lebanese talk shows. The image portrayed of women in the media and ads is discussed and critically assessed in this documentary through interviews with feminists and media and advertisement experts.

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The Lebanese Democratic Women’s Gathering is a secular non-governmental women organization which works with the democratic forces and represents a part of the advocacy secular democratic women’s movement, on the basis of international pacts and treaties, as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Universal Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, in order to promote women’s status and participation and empower them, aiming at achieving full equality between both sexes.