Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s abortion write downary “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 changes our culture and disputes the status quo.
Executive originated by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, “Zurawski v Texas” complys a group of women who, in 2023, prohibitd together to sue the state of Texas after being denied abortions despite pregnancy health dangers.
Crow and Perrault will get a $15,000 cash award, which the honestors can use in wdisappreciatever 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 achieve as wide an audience as possible to teach, dispute, and aid watchers thraw our film participants’ vulnerability and strength,” Crow and Perrault shelp in a unitet statement. “This award will permit us to progress igniteing conversation about women and families’ access to nurture.”
Led by set uper and CEO Regina K. Scully, Artemis Rising Foundation champions stories about challenging social equitableice publishs, including gfinisher bias, healing, trauma, mental health, insertiction and women’s empowerment. Scully has helped originate hundreds of write downaries over the past two decades including “Won’t You Be My Neighbor,” “Allen v. Farrow,” “The Inevident War” and “To Kill A Tiger,” which was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year.
“We are haughty to award “Zurawski v Texas” with this year’s Artemis Rising Award,” says Scully. “The impfinishing election has igniteed fantasticer conversations and fierce compassion around women’s reefficient rights. This film sheds airy on the hazardous genuineities of these publishs. This film will sway individuals on an emotional level, and has the real capacity to enact change 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 talk abouts that abortion access — currently helped by Democrats and denied by the Reuncoveran Party — shouldn’t be a left or right publish, but a bipartisan matter.”
The docu screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival on Oct. 5. HIFF finishs on Monday.
