Ithaca College's Women Direct film series continues on Wednesday, April 16, with a retrospective on Prathiba Parmar, one of the most significant voices in Great Britain's independent media movement of the 1980s and 1990s. The event, which will feature Parmar as a visiting artist, will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Roy H. Park Hall Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

Parmar's acclaimed body of work includes the controversial film on female circumcision Warrior Marks (1993), The Colour of Britain (1994), and A Place of Rage (1991). The Ithaca College show premieres Jodie (1996), a film that captures the magic of Jodie Foster's screen career. Also included is Sari Red (1988); Emergence (1988), about the diasporan experience for women artists of color; Khush (1991), a visual exploration of the sexuality of south Asian gays in Britain, the U.S., and India; and Bhangra Jig (1990), a vibrant short video about Asian dance and music.

The series will conclude on Wednesday, April 23, with "Digitial Feminism: Women and New Media across Borders," a presentation featuring a screening of visiting artist Adriene Jenik's Mauve Desert. The hit of the Toronto Film Festival and the Second Annual Digital Storytelling Festival, Mauve Desert "translates" the novel Le Desert by Nicole Brossard, a Montreal-based feminist author of more than 19 works of poetry, fiction, and drama. The 7:00 p.m. screening will be in Park Hall Auditorium.

Major funding for the Women Direct series is provided by the James Pendleton endowment of the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Additional funding is provided by the College's Department of Cinema and Photography, the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute, and the Electronic Arts Program of the Experimental Television Center funded by the New York State Council on the Arts.