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A film by Guggenheim award-winning filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West
What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women in public spaces?
Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West believes that the streets are a
War Zone for women. Armed with only a video-camera, she both demonstrates this experience and, by turning and confronting her abusers, reclaims space that was stolen from her.
War Zone is an excellent discussion starter for both men and women. It gives voice and expression to a disturbing daily aspect of being a woman in this society. It also gives men a direct personal feeling for what harassing behavior looks and feels like to a woman. Young men who may think such behavior is cool or funny will be forced to rethink their assumptions.
War Zone is a classroom, documentary edition of Maggie Hadleigh-West's first film by the same title. Her film has been screened and applauded at scores of festivals in the U.S. and abroad. She has appeared to discuss the film on the
Today Show, CBS News,
20/20, BBC, NPR, CNN, and
Eye to Eye with Connie Chung.
Sections: Intro | History | Interviews | Gina: New Orleans | Interviews 2 | Natasha & Sheila: New York | Interviews 3 | Trelles: New Orleans | Interviews 4 | Respect | Interviews 5 | Phone Call
Discussion Guide
TranscriptExecutive Producers: Maggie Hadleigh-West, Missouri Davenport Lobrano, Hank Levine
Producer: Hank Levine
Writer, Director: Maggie Hadleigh-West
Sr. Associate Producers: Suzie Baer, Dyan Diemar
Associate Producers: Richard Calderon, Karen Laverty
Line Producer: Aaron Levine
A Film Fatale, Inc. / Hank Levine Film GmbH Production.
Educational Distribution by Media Education Foundation
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"Among all of the films related to sexism, harassment, and violence I have reviewed, War Zone stands out as the most unique, powerful, and important contribution to anti-sexist education."
- Paul Gorski | EdChange Multicultural Pavilion
"Shrewdly building a canny tale of humor, hostility, and, ultimately, physical violence. War Zone... asks the questions on the mind of every woman who knows the anger and frustration of not being able to walk down the street undisturbed."
- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert | LA Weekly
"Funny and shocking!"
- Susan Sarandon | Academy Award Winning Actor
"You have to admire her courage and honesty... she has made a highly provocative film!"
- Kevin Thomas | LA Times
"War Zone is as spontaneous and humorous, as it is relentless and painful in it's investigation of gender relations."
- Nicholas Wenner | Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
"War Zone is utterly solid, carried along by the Director's smarts and charisma."
- Nada Ulaby | Windy City Times
"Off the pavement, at dinner tables and parties, her film might start a small-scale war between the sexes."
- Karen Avenoso | Daily News
"One of the most provocative and beautifully made films I've seen in years."
- John Pierson | Author of Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes
"Alarming and electrifying! Utterly compelling... War Zone may well be the best date movie of the summer, but expect to see more arguing than necking in the back rows."
- Emily Barton | Time Out New York
"Everything she shows is fascinating, revealing and provocative."
- Jonathon Rosenbaum | Critics Choice, Chicago Reader
"Feisty and provocative."
- Dave Kehr | New York Daily News
"...Besides her courage to expose herself to these hungry men, the fascination of War Zone lies in an extraordinary and smart relationship between the public and the private space."
- Jan Distelmeir, epd | Bravo! (Germany)
"A very thought provoking film that honestly deals with a deeply disturbing subject. Between the anger and the laughter, one can't help but be touched emotionally."
- Bruce Sinofsky | Co-Director of Brother's Keeper and Paradise Lost
"Rarely has one seen such obvious privileges being questioned with such clarity and yes, actually with humor."
- Eva X Moberg | Aftonbladet (Sweden)
"...This is a war of a very special kind, the violence of lecherous men who give unwanted attention... War Zone shows how the body of a woman can become a battlefield, just by what she wears."
- Jurgen Veil | Moving Pictures (Germany)
"Finally, every woman who's endured such unpleasantries as 'Mmm...I want some of that...' on her way to the deli or dry cleaner has someone fighting for her right to walk public streets in peace."
- New York Magazine
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