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Rotorua s Lizzie Marvelly joins strong women cast for new film shining light on gender equality
7 Mar, 2021 11:00 PM
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Rotorua s Lizzie Marvelly will appear alongside a number of prominent New Zealand women in the new film Revolt She Said. Photo / File
Rotorua s Lizzie Marvelly will appear alongside a number of prominent New Zealand women in the new film Revolt She Said. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
Rotorua s Lizzie Marvelly will appear alongside a number of prominent New Zealand women in a new film shining a light on the country s gender equality - or the lack of it.
The documentary premieres today in line with International Women s Day.
Dr Pani Farvid in Revolt She Said. Lever will be travelling throughout the country taking her film to Wellington, Dunedin and Queenstown during March. It will also be screened in Melbourne and as a part of the Montreal Independent Film Festival, Chicago Indie Film festival and the Montreal Women’s International Film Festival. Lever points to the World Economic Forum which shows that gender equality will not be seen in our lifetimes and gender parity in economics is more than 257 years away.
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Artist and advocate Lizzie Marvelly. “It’s an embarrassment to live in a so-called ‘liberal democracy’ where one gender is profoundly unequal, and I think we’ve had enough,” she says.