Podcast appearances and mentions of erika cohn

In this episode of the podcast, we are honored to share a Q&A with Erika Cohn filmmaker of Belly of the Beast. Belly of the Beast is an incredibly powerful film-from their trailer: It is about when a courageous young woman and a radical lawyer discover a pattern of illegal sterilizations in California's women's prisons. They wage a near impossible battle against the department of corrections. With the growing team of investigators inside prison, working with colleagues on the outside, they uncover a series of statewide crimes from inadequate health care to sexual assault, to coercive sterilizations primarily targeting women of color. The shocking legal drama captured over seven years features extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people demanding attention to a shameful and ongoing legacy of eugenics and reproductive injustice in the United States. In this conversation with Erika, we want to share more with you to grow our understanding about these injustices, about what has happened and what continues to happen in our carceral system. We are diving into these themes:~Honoring the lived experiences of those incarcerated~Structural racism's impact on the carceral reproductive care~How eugenics presently operates in the USA~Consent within coercive environments~Overcoming obstacles to create change  Find more of Erika's info here at her guest profile!Get involved:Watch Belly of the Beast film for additional context and insightEmail info@bellyofthebeastfilm.com to get involvedApply for Involuntary Sterilization ReparationsSupport the show

In this episode, I'm psyched to chat with Peabody and Emmy Award-winning director/producer ERIKA COHN, who Variety recognized as one of 2017's top documentary filmmakers to watch. We discuss her powerful, shocking and incredibly impactful feature doc, "BELLY OF THE BEAST," which exposes modern-day eugenics and illegal sterilizations in California prisons. Erika explains how she filmed Belly of the Beast over seven years and was able to gain such extraordinary access and intimate accounts from currently and formerly incarcerated people. She shares insight of how patience, passion and determination helped her and her team achieve change in the system and reparations for the victims of forced sterilizations. And the film even boasts a theme song from the one and only Mary J. Blige!  You can find info on Erika and Belly of the Beast below as well as where to find me on social media. Please remember to subscribe, download, and rate "No Script, No Problem" with 5 stars. You can find it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and TuneIn. Thanks!

Filmmaker Erika Cohn joins the Changing Directions podcast interview series to talk about her game changing documentary Belly of the Beast. You can watch the film for free on PBS Independent Lens through the end of July. Changing Directions is a podcast interview series focused on diverse and emerging filmmakers who are pushing the boundaries of what's possible for women and minorities while creating amazing films.

In this Works of Justice episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Erika Cohn, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning director and producer. Her newest documentary, "Belly of the Beast," exposes modern-day eugenics and reproductive injustice in California women's prisons. This moving and informative interview followed a private screening of the film for our Prison Writing Mentor community. Erika and Mery Concepción, Prison and Justice Writing Volunteer Coordinator, spoke about the implications of forced sterilization behind bars, how incarceration is itself a tool for eugenics and population control, and the challenges of defining consent in a space characterized by its lack of autonomy. They also discussed what it means to produce a trauma-informed film, and how to navigate and think creatively about obstacles presented by censorship and lack of access to information. This podcast episode was written and hosted by Mery Concepción and produced by Frances Keohane, with help from Caits Meissner and Robert Pollock.

Hello Listeners! I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to the second series of the Docs & More podcast, where you’ve been able to hear from award-winning and Oscar nominated directors!! Including Deepti Gupta, Mart Bira, Asad Faruqi, Barry Avrich, Siji Awoyinka, Erika Cohn, Diana Nielle and Richard Poplak, Joel Bakan, Maia Lekow, Mia Donavan, Mina Keshavarz, Sharron Ward and Tamara Dawit. Their stories have covered a vast geographical area from Ethiopia and Kenya to Canada and the US, from Mongolia to Nigeria and from Pakistan and India to Hong Kong and Iran. These podcasts are my passion and I am glad they have reached such a wide, global audience. I would love to make a third series but for that to happen I need you. If you would like to see a third series, please consider donating some money - however little - through my ko fi page, at www.ko-fi.com/docsmore. Thank you. Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels).

This week my guest is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning director and producer, Erika Cohn. Her latest documentary film, The Belly of the Beast, uncovers a pattern of illegal sterilisations taking place in a woman’s prison in the USA. It exposes the thinking of the doctors who carried out these procedures, who literally believe they can play God and decide on the future fate of women which will affect the rest of their lives and violates their human rights. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.

Renowned Producer Erika Cohn of the groundbreaking new film "Belly Of The Beast" weighs in on eugenics against black women in the prison system and talks in-depth about reproductive rights. Show hosted by: Amber Noelle

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!  1. Belly of the Beast: This morning we are joined in the studio by director, Erika Cohn and attorney Cynthia Chandler to talk about a beast and women who were consumed by this beast, CDCR, women like Kelli Dillon to took the beast to court and won.    2. Jeff Ross joins us to talk about 23rd Annual SF Indie Festival, Feb. 4-21, 2021. Jeff has been an events producer for over twenty five years, ranging from nightclub shows, art openings, live music, performing arts and film festivals. In the past, he has served as Operations Manager at the SF International Film Festival (1997-2001) and as a member of the operations team at Burning Man (2006-2018). He founded SF IndieFest in 1998 and currently produces four annual film festivals a year in San Francisco which present nine weeks of programming and a combined annual attendance of over 20,000 patrons. 3. Rebroadcast Feb. 3, 2021 show.   

[REBROADCAST FROM JUNE 4, 2020] Director Erika Cohn and producer Angela Tucker discuss their documentary "Belly of the Beast," which tells the story of involuntary sterilizations of women, many of them African American, in the federal prison system in California.

Erin and Ange sit down with Erika Cohn, director of the documentary Belly of the Beast, a film that follows the fight against the illegal sterilization of women in prison. While this documentary has been 10 years in the making, it all started when she became a volunteer at the Oakland based organization Justice Now, which fights to provide social justice for women in prison. We get into the back stories of film's main subjects, Kelli Dillon, and Cynthia Chandler, and the dark history of eugenics in California. This is a powerful documentary that further proves our need for MAJOR transparency in our prisons, and to rethink the money spent on a system that is completely inept. And while we're at it, when the hell will the decisions made about a woman's body be her own? The fight is not over, reparations have not been made, and the people at the helm of these atrocities (that are still happening to this day) have not yet been held accountable. Support this film, get fired up, and go to bellyofthebeast.com to get involved!Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. --Buy us a cup of coffee!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage!Rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!Visit our website! www.bitchtalkpodcast.comFollow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.Listen every other Thursday 9:30 - 10 am on BFF.FMPOWERED BY GO-TO Productions 

BELLY OF THE BEAST shines a white hot spotlight on the pastoral farmlands surrounding the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), the world’s largest women’s prison. For decades CCWF concealed the reproductive and human rights violations transpiring inside its walls. A courageous woman, Kelli Dillon, who was involuntarily sterilized at the CCWF, teams up with a radical lawyer to stop these violations. Together they spearhead investigations that uncover a series of statewide crimes, primarily targeting women of color, from inadequate access to healthcare to sexual assault to illegal sterilization. With a team of tenacious heroines, both in and out of prison, they take to the courtroom to fight for reparations. But no one believes them. As additional damning evidence is uncovered by the Center for Investigative Reporting, a media frenzy and series of hearings provide hope for some semblance of justice. Yet, doctors and prison officials contend that the procedures were in each person’s best interest and of an overall social benefit. Invoking the weight of the historic stain and legacy of eugenics, BELLY OF THE BEAST presents a decade long, infuriating contemporary legal drama. Director Erika Cohn (The Judge, When the Voices Fade) joins us for a conversation about her incredible tale that chronicles the rampant abuse of incarcerated women, being coerced by a prison-based culture of medical personnel actively subverting their basic human rights. For news, updates and screenings go to: bellyofthebeastfilm.com

Director Erika Cohn and producer Angela Tucker discuss their documentary "Belly of the Beast," which tells the story of involuntary sterilizations of women, many of them African American, in the federal prison system in California. The documentary makes its New York digital festival preview as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and will be available to stream online nationally from June 11 to 20.  Event: Erika Cohn and Angela Tucker will be part of a virtual Q&A event on June 11 at 8pm. 

The Judge, a new film by award-winning director Erika Cohn, tells the incredible story of how Kholoud Al-Faqih achieved her improbable dream of representing women in the Middle East’s all-male religious courts

Religious courts in the Middle East had historically banned women from adjudicating domestic and family matters - in both the Shari'a courts of Islam and the Rabbinic courts of Judaism -until Kholoud Al-Faqih, dares to challenge that history. With the support of a progressive Sheik, Kholoud becomes the first woman judge with her appointment to a Palestinian Shari'a court in the West Bank, bringing a subtle new perspective garnered from her early professional life working with battered women as an attorney in both the criminal and Shari'a courts.

Happy Friday folks! "Eighth Grade" hits theaters this weekend and I have Picture Lock contributor Richie Wenzler on to give his thoughts on the film. So in the spirit of middle school awkwardness and judging, I have a great line up of interviews for you on the show. I talk with the hilarious Melissa Miller-Costanzo of “All These Small Moments”. We talk about our love for people to be quiet and leave us alone during movies, but more importantly the well received film. I also talk with producer/director Robin Hauser about her documentary film “Bias”. In the film, she puts her own biases on display to explore the nature of implicit bias. Finally, I speak w/ Erika Cohn, producer/director of “The Judge”. The film explores revolves around the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare insights into both Islamic law and gendered justice. Plus I've got your answers to the Picture Lock question of the week two weeks ago after missing last week! Follow Melissa here: https://twitter.com/melbmiller?lang=en Check out "Bias" here: https://www.biasfilm.com/ Find out more about "The Judge" here: https://www.thejudgefilm.com/ Take my PR For The Indie Filmmaker online course here: https://indiefilmpr.thinkific.com/ Get a partner as passionate as you in your film or film event's publicity: www.picturelockpr.com Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kevin-sampsons-picture-lock/id639359584?mt=2 Be sure to visit www.picturelockshow.com for everything Picture Lock! Please give us a review on whatever platform you listen to this podcast on. Thanks so much for your continued support. Drop a line a picturelockshow@gmail.com to say hi and let us know what you think of the show. FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/picturelockshow SNAPCHAT: https://www.snapchat.com/add/picturelockshow YouTube CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/picturelockshow TWITTER: https://twitter.com/picturelockshow INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/picturelockshow PINTEREST: http://pinterest.com/picturelockshow

Religious courts in the Middle East had historically banned women from adjudicating domestic and family matters - in both the Shari'a courts of Islam and the Rabbinic courts of Judaism -until Kholoud Al-Faqih, dares to challenge that history. With the support of a progressive Sheik, Kholoud becomes the first woman judge with her appointment to a Palestinian Shari'a court in the West Bank, bringing a subtle new perspective garnered from her early professional life working with battered women as an attorney in both the criminal and Shari'a courts.

When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench. He laughed at her. But just a few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts. THE JUDGE offers a unique portrait of Judge Kholoud—her brave journey as a lawyer, her tireless fight for justice for women, and her drop-in visits with clients, friends, and family. With unparalleled access to the courts, THE JUDGE presents an unfolding vérité legal drama, with rare insight into both Islamic law and gendered justice. In the process, the film illuminates some of the universal conflicts in the domestic life of Palestine—custody of children, divorce, abuse—while offering an unvarnished look at life for women and Shari’a. Director and producer Erika Cohn stops by to talk about her warm, moving portrait of a dedicated professional officer of the court determined to see that men and women receive the highest level of justice. For News and updates go to: thejudgefilm.com Find out where The Judge is screening

Erika Cohn shares information on producing & distributing her critically acclaimed documentary feature The Judge.   To learn more about Carole Dean and From the Heart Productions please visit www.FromtheHeartProductions.com.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Erika Cohn, dir., THE JUDGE & Denali Tiller, dir.,TRE MAISON DASAN @https://www.sffilm.org/ 2. America ReFramed on The World Channel http://worldchannel.org/programs/america-reframed/:Guests: Christopher Hastings, Executive Producer and directors:Keith McQuirter MILWAUKEE 53206: 04.03, Jenny Phillips, BEYOND THE WALL:04/10 & Annelise Wunderlich, THE CORRIDOR:04/17 3. The Black Panther Film Dialogues Vol. 3: with Juliana “Jewels” Smith, the (H)afrocentric creator, is a writer, cultural worker, and educator and Alan Clark, who is a graphic novelist. Visit phantomelectik.com 4. Rhonda Benin, 6th Annual Just Like a Woman Concert 3/31 at thefrieght.org

Erika and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Shari’a law, gender justice, and life for women in the Middle East, education, power, politics and storytelling. Biography Erika Cohn has received numerous accolades for her work, including a Director’s Guild of America award for her film, When the Voices Fade, a narrative profile of the Lebanese-Israeli war of 2006. Erika co-directed/produced, In Football We Trust, an Emmy nominated, feature documentary about the unique faith and culture that ultimately drives young Pacific Islander men into the NFL, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS’ 2016 Independent Lens series. Most recently, Erika completed The Judge, a film about the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a courts, which will premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and broadcast on PBS’ 2018 Independent Lens series. Her work has been supported by IFP, the Sundance Institute, Tribeca Institute, Hot Docs, Sheffield, ITVS, Women in Film, BAVC and the CPB Producer’s Academy among others. Erika grew up attending the Sundance Film Festival as a native Utahn, where she first began her career. In 2008, Erika traveled to Cambodia where she shot Giant Steps, a documentary about the restitution of art after the Khmer Rouge rule, which aired on PBS. Later that year she directed La Guerrera, a narrative short about a young girl in Mexico pursuing her dreams to become a professional soccer player, which premiered at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. In 2010, Erika associate produced the six-part Frontline/American Experience historical series, God in America, which explored the intersection of religion and public life in America. Erika has been a featured panelist/speaker at various film festivals and university conferences and mentors youth filmmakers across the globe. She studied at Chapman University (California) and Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and has degrees in Film Production, Middle Eastern Studies, and Acting Performance. In 2013, Erika founded Idle Wild Films, Inc., which has released three feature documentaries and produced numerous branded content and commercial spots, including Gatorade’s Win from Within series, for which she received a 2016 Webby award nomination. Erika is also an avid photographer and served as a U.S. Ambassadorial Film Scholar to Israel/Palestine. Synopsis The Judge provides rare insight into Shari’a law, an often misunderstood legal framework for Muslims, told through the eyes of the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s religious courts. When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench.   He laughed at her. But just a few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge in the Shari’a courts. THE JUDGE offers a unique portrait of Kholoud—her brave journey as a lawyer, her tireless fight for justice for women, and her drop-in visits with clients, friends, and family. In the process, the film illuminates some of the universal conflicts in the domestic life of Palestine—custody of children, divorce, abuse—while offering an unvarnished look at life for women under Shari’a law. Trailer More about the film here. ---------- For more information about David Peck's podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here or check out the site of his podcast on film, social change and much more. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. Image Copyright: Erika Cohn and Three Judges LLC. Used with permission.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week's podcast features a Q & A session with directors Nicole Ballivian and Erika Cohn after the L.A. premieres of their two movies “Driving to Zigzigland” and “Where the Voices Fade” on October 18, 2009.