About this Event
Join award-winning filmmaker Charysse Tia Harper for a 90-minute Women's History Month event featuring:
- The Jill of the Trade (22 minutes), a Best Documentary winner showcasing five women in male-dominated professions. Trailer:
- Guest speaker from a woman in a male-majority field
- Q&A with filmmaker and guest speaker
Bio of Charysse Tia Harper
Being a dual citizen of the United States and Trinidad & Tobago, Charysse Tia Harper has focused projects on her Trinidad culture: award-winning film, The Other Side of Carnival; T&T 50 in Fifteen and Panomundo Part 1: The Evolution of the Steelpan and Part 2: Pan Worldwide; and on her American identity: award-winning documentary, 12 Months, First Weekend February and Insurance: Putting Newark on the Map. She created Xplore the World in 2010 to further this mission.
Amidst the Covid-19 lockdown, Charysse made The Jill of the Trade (2021), a documentary short that highlights women from around the world who work in male-dominated industries. She is in pre-production for Las Matadoras, a feature-length documentary about three female bullfighters. Charysse resides in London.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Main Building, SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London, United Kingdom
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