Female Jewish filmmaker gives voice to oppressed women
Kweskin tackles hard-hitting subjects in her films like female genital mutilation, honor violence, forced marriage and systemic exclusion of women from education.
Paula Kweskin created the Censored Women’s Film Festival out of a growing concern that women’s voices worldwide were being silenced.(photo credit: LACEY JOHNSON/JTA)ByRENEE GHERT-ZAND