Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s abortion recordary “Zurawski v Texas” garnered the inaugural Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The new award honors one film that alters our culture and contests the status quo.
Executive originated by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, “Zurawski v Texas” chases a group of women who, in 2023, prohibitd together to sue the state of Texas after being denied abortions despite pregnancy health hazards.
Crow and Perrault will get a $15,000 cash award, which the straightforwardors can employ in wantipathyver capacity they pick. The 98-minute doc, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September, is seeking distribution.
“Our hope for this film has always been to accomplish as wide an audience as possible to teach, contest, and ease seeers thraw our film participants’ vulnerability and strength,” Crow and Perrault shelp in a unitet statement. “This award will permit us to persist encourageing conversation about women and families’ access to nurture.”
Led by establisher and CEO Regina K. Scully, Artemis Rising Foundation champions stories about challenging social equitableice rerents, including gfinisher bias, healing, trauma, mental health, compriseiction and women’s empowerment. Scully has helped originate hundreds of recordaries over the past two decades including “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” “Allen v. Farrow,” “The Inapparent War” and “To Kill A Tiger,” which was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year.
“We are self-convey inant to award “Zurawski v Texas” with this year’s Artemis Rising Award,” says Scully. “The impfinishing election has encourageed fantasticer conversations and fierce compassion around women’s reefficient rights. This film sheds airy on the hazardy genuineities of these rerents. This film will impact individuals on an emotional level, and has the real capacity to enact alter in this country.”
On Sept. 24 in Austin, Texas, dating app Bumble fianced an impact screening series that included “Zurawski v Texas.” Bumble also put money towards the docu’s budget.
Variety critic Tomris Laffly wrote that “Zurawski v Texas” teachdly argues that abortion access — currently aided by Democrats and denied by the Reuncoveran Party — shouldn’t be a left or right rerent, but a bipartisan matter.”
The docu screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival on Oct. 5. HIFF finishs on Monday.
