at Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock VT Film Series: Breaking the News
December 2 & 3, 2023 | 3:00PM
Directed by Heather Courtney, Princess Hairston, and Chelsea Hernandez. 99 minutes. Not rated.
Q&A with filmmaker Princess Hairston following the Saturday screening
Frustrated by the dearth of women and people of color in the media, in 2020 a motivated group of women and LGBTQ+ journalists banded together to buck the status quo and launch The 19th* News. Based in Austin, Texas, the digital news start-up is named after the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote, but with an asterisk to acknowledge the Black women and women of color who were omitted. The 19th*’s work is guided by the asterisk–asking who is overlooked in the story and how they can be included.
