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Vessel [videorecording (DVD)].

Kino Lorber, [2016].

DVD 363.46 V582 Doc

Gomperts, Rebecca, 1966-

Women on Waves (Organization)

Abortion -- Netherlands.

Abortion services.

Abortion services -- Netherlands.

Reproductive rights.

Pro-choice movement.

Water rights (International law)

Physicians -- Netherlands -- Biography.

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (86 min.) : 2.0 Dolby digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a documentary film in 2014.

Special features: Deleted scenes ; trailers.

In English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Arabic or Dutch dialogue with optional English subtitles.

Sovereignty Productions presents ; a film by Diana Whitten ; in association with Fork Films, Impact Partners, & Chicken and Egg Picturs ; produced by Mithcell Block ; directed, produced and filmed by Diana Whitten.

"Vessel begins with a young doctor who lived by the sea, and an unlikely idea. Rebecca Gomperts, horrified by the realities created by anti-abortion law around the world, felt compelled to challenge this. Her method: to provide abortions on a ship in offshore waters. Her project, Women on Waves, begins as flawed spectacle, a media frenzy, faced with governmental, religious, and military blockades. But with each setback comes a more refined mission, until Rebecca has the revelation that she can use new technologies to bypass law – and train women to give themselves safe abortions using WHO-sanctioned protocols with pills. We witness the creation of an underground network of emboldened, informed activists, working at the cutting edge of global reproductive rights, who trust women to handle abortion themselves. Vessel is Rebecca’s story: one of a woman who heard and answered a calling, and transformed a wildly improbable idea into a global movement."--Container.

Honorable Mention: Moving Mountains Award, Mountainfilm in Telluride, 2014.

Adrienne Shelly Award for Excellence in Filmmaking: Nantucket Film Festival, 2014.

Peter Wintonick Award: Sheffield Docfest, 2014.

Audience Award and Special Jury Recognition for Political Courage: SXSW Film Festival, 2014.

Documentary films.

Biographical documentary films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Whitten, Diana.

Gomperts, Rebecca, 1966-

Kino Lorber, Inc.

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