The film
Perfume de gardenia by Puerto Rican director Gisela Rosario Ramos will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place from June 9 to 20, 2021. The filmmaker has worked on other film projects as producer and director, including the documentary
El hijo de Ruby and
Cartas de amor para una ícona.
“Perfume de gardenias,” a film directed by Puerto Rican Gisela Rosario Ramos, also known as Macha Colón, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, which will be held from June 9 to 20, the film’s production reported this Friday. [. . .]
The cast of the film includes Puerto Rican actresses Luz María Rondón (as the protagonist for the first time in a film), Sharon Riley, Katira María, Carmen Nydia Velázquez, Blanca Rivera, Milagros Ortiz, Abner Rivera, Flor Joglar mother of rapper René Pérez and painter Antonio Martorell.
UN Women Women in Ecuador have stayed in the páramo, an ecosystem in the Andes, despite the threats that desertification, overgrazing and other human activities pose to their sustenance. With funding from the Municipality of Spain, UN Women is working with the Azuay provincial government to improve the resilience of communities in Azuay province through a comprehensive intervention that includes women-led sustainable agricultural production. The project is also dismantling gender stereotypes and empowering women to contribute to decision-making processes in their communities.
Zoila Dolores Piedra Guamán is a farmer and homemaker from Puculay, in the Azuay province. Photo: UN Women/Jerónimo Villarreal
How women in Ecuador are restoring a fragile ecosystem in the face of climate crisis Women in Ecuador have stayed in the páramo, an ecosystem in the Andes, despite the threats that desertification, overgrazing and other human activities pose to their sustenance. With funding from the Municipality of Madrid, UN Women is working with the Azuay provincial government to improve the resilience of communities in Azuay province through a comprehensive intervention that includes women-led sustainable agricultural production. The project is also dismantling gender stereotypes and empowering women to contribute to decision-making processes in their communities. Date: Friday, May 7, 2021
Zoila Dolores Piedra Guamán is a farmer and homemaker from Puculay, in the Azuay province. Photo: UN Women/Jerónimo Villarreal
So far in 2021 there have been 159 femicides and 20,000 complaints filed in a country where the judicial system seems incapable of providing an effective response to these crimes
âThis is the street, criminals abusing girls of every age. This is the street. Girls are raped and thereâs nothing that can stop it, however much theyâre protected thereâs always someone shooting,â goes a song by Guatemalan rapper Mai de Rimas. They are lyrics that accurately describe the harsh reality of daily life for women and girls in the Central American country, where they are victims of femicide, rape â 18 per day in 2021, according to the Public Prosecutorsâ Office â sexual harassment, mistreatment and disappearances. So far in 2021, the Womenâs Observatory has reported 159 femicides and violent deaths among women, a number that reached 457 in 2020. The Guatemala National Institute of Forensic Science (Inacif) revealed that the majority of these deaths in 2021 have been caused by firearms (80). Last year, the police officially recorded the murders of 358 women, while Inacif carried out 504 autopsies connected to deaths from crimina