Posted by: Dale Griffiths Stamos
This week I'd like to talk about someone who isn't a RenWoman, who isn't in fact a woman at all. It is Emmanuel Itier, a documentary filmmaker who made an extraordinary film about women. The film, called Femme: Women Healing the World is about the power of the feminine to transform the world. Through interviews with over 100 women from all walks of life, and from across the globe, it ambitiously tackles a myriad of contemporary problems and issues, challenging us to consider their sources and offering up solutions - all seen through a feminine perspective. Executive produced and starring Sharon Stone, Femme also features ground breakers like feminist Gloria Steinem, futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire; Hollywood luminaries like Mira Nair and Maria Conchita Alonso; and movers and shakers like (our own RenWoman) designer/businesswoman Barbara Lazaroff, and spiritual leader/politician Marianne Williamson.
Femme has resonated with many and in fact, to date, has screened at over thirty film festivals and conferences / symposia, and has garnered multiple awards, including two humanitarian awards (Lady Filmmakers Fest & IFQ Film Festival); best documentary and audience awards (IFQ FF); Best Spiritual Film (The Conscious Life Expo) and a My Hero Award for Sharon Stone (My Hero Film Festival).
Femme has resonated with many and in fact, to date, has screened at over thirty film festivals and conferences / symposia, and has garnered multiple awards, including two humanitarian awards (Lady Filmmakers Fest & IFQ Film Festival); best documentary and audience awards (IFQ FF); Best Spiritual Film (The Conscious Life Expo) and a My Hero Award for Sharon Stone (My Hero Film Festival).
That this film speaks to a pressing need in our world to re-evaluate the mostly masculine values that have driven us for so many centuries is clear. But this is not a film about men bashing. On the contrary, it celebrates the male and female in all of us - it is about a balance of the best in both, and how we must move forward in healthy partnership.
I had the privilege of meeting and talking with Emmanuel Itier recently. He is a man who loves women, in the best sense of that word. He trusts, admires and believes in women. He celebrates the natural collaborative, communicative, and peace-oriented nature of women, and recognizes that the patriarchal system, run by the two drives of fear and conquest needs to be deeply re-evaluated.
"The root of the problem," he told me, "is the imbalance between the feminine and the masculine. Men have been conquerors, takers, killers. You push women out of politics, education, and religion, and you end up with a totally unstable world. If you look at who is currently managing the planet, it's just a few hundred thousand men. I now feel a compassion for them. They are little boys who were given a gun, either a mental one or a physical one, at age four and told to go and shoot. They think they are meant to kill. It can be a physical killing, an emotional one, or sometimes it's both. It's a real problem. Until we have a rebalance between the yin and yang, between the feminine and masculine, until men are reconciled with themselves, we will go nowhere."
For more information about this provocative and inspiring film, go to: https://femmethemovie.com/.
Femme: Women Healing the World is available for rent or purchase on Amazon. (And if you're an Amazon Prime member you can watch it free!) I recommend that you check it out!
I had the privilege of meeting and talking with Emmanuel Itier recently. He is a man who loves women, in the best sense of that word. He trusts, admires and believes in women. He celebrates the natural collaborative, communicative, and peace-oriented nature of women, and recognizes that the patriarchal system, run by the two drives of fear and conquest needs to be deeply re-evaluated.
"The root of the problem," he told me, "is the imbalance between the feminine and the masculine. Men have been conquerors, takers, killers. You push women out of politics, education, and religion, and you end up with a totally unstable world. If you look at who is currently managing the planet, it's just a few hundred thousand men. I now feel a compassion for them. They are little boys who were given a gun, either a mental one or a physical one, at age four and told to go and shoot. They think they are meant to kill. It can be a physical killing, an emotional one, or sometimes it's both. It's a real problem. Until we have a rebalance between the yin and yang, between the feminine and masculine, until men are reconciled with themselves, we will go nowhere."
For more information about this provocative and inspiring film, go to: https://femmethemovie.com/.
Femme: Women Healing the World is available for rent or purchase on Amazon. (And if you're an Amazon Prime member you can watch it free!) I recommend that you check it out!