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We join documentary filmmaker Maureen Castle Tusty on an inspirational global journey. Her latest film “She Rises Up” introduces us to three courageous women tackling poverty through entrepreneurship in their home countries. Magatte from Senegal, Gladys in Peru, and Selyna from Sri Lanka each strive to lift their communities and empower others through small business.

Despite facing social and financial obstacles, these determined women found ways to turn their talents into opportunities. Magatte started a cosmetics company celebrating her culture. Running mini-markets, Gladys provides jobs and independence. And Selyna’s textile efforts boost income and dignity. Through energizing stories and songs, Tusty celebrates their resilience and the global impact women can have when supported to succeed.

Taking us from markets and factories to stores and homes, “She Rises Up” highlights grassroots solutions with international significance. Produced by Maureen Tusty’s New York-based company Milkhaus Pictures, the film reminds us that...

"One can break the chains – even if they are made of iron, they can be broken." Abramorama has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary film titled She Rises Up, from acclaimed doc filmmaker Maureen Castle Tusty (also of The Singing Revolution previously). Set for release in limited US theaters starting late June this summer. She Rises Up reveals the explosive implications of women’s economic participation as we follow radically different women from Sri Lanka, Peru, and Senegal who are fighting to build businesses that create job opportunities for even more women, while also contributing to the reduction of poverty. With Abramorama orchestrating the theatrical release and Roco Films activating screening hosts for the film in non-traditional spaces, like college campuses, non-profits, churches and NGOs, the film will open in NYC at Look Dine-In Cinemas followed by more cities across the US. Five-time Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo composed & recorded...

By Michael Atkinson

Filmmaking is all about collaboration and fortuity, as much as we genuflect faithfully to the sacredness of the auteur. Take Carol Reed -- a career that spanned almost four decades, encompassing 33 features, and yet only a few are memorable (not, God knows, his late-career Oscar-winner "Oliver!"). Essentially, Reed finds his way onto the pantheon's higher shelves on the strength of only a handful of films, starting with the trio of startling, precise, infinitely rich features he made in the late '40s, one after the other -- "Odd Man Out" (1947), "The Fallen Idol" (1948) and "The Third Man" (1949) -- and ending a little less auspiciously with "Our Man in Havana" (1959). The rogue factor here is that three out of the four were written by Graham Greene, whose particular ironic-tension story skills gave many a medium-boil filmmaker his best shot at sublimity. The first three -- certainly one of...