GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Triplex Cinema announced a special election season event featuring a screening of Donna Zaccaro's "Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way" on Sunday Sept. 15 at 3:00 pm. 

 

Tickets are available for purchase at the Triplex Cinema website. Following the screening there will be a discussion between Zaccaro, Geraldine Ferraro's daughter, and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a well-known writer, journalist and political activist, and longtime friend of Ferraro.

 

According to a press release:

 

Forty years ago presidential candidate Walter Mondale made the historic selection of New York Congressional Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his Vice- Presidential running mate. "Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way" is an inspiring film about Ferraro's historic nomination and the first full profile of the woman who changed the face of American politics forever. Directed by Ferraro's daughter, Donna Zaccaro, "Paving the Way" is a loving and heartfelt look at Ferraro's distinguished career. 

 

After a career as a teacher and attorney, Ferraro worked in the Queens, New York District Attorney's office, where she started the Special Victims Bureau. In 1978 Ferraro was elected to Congress from New York City's 9th district. As a Congresswoman, Ferraro was a tireless women's and human right's advocate, working for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and many related issues.

 

In her 1984 Vice Presidential acceptance speech, Ferraro spoke of the realization of the American Dream: "Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice-president in the new land my father came to love." The Mondale-Ferraro ticket lost, but Ferraro's candidacy forever reshaped the American political and social landscape. 

 

Following the election, Ferraro continued her life of public service when she was appointed by President Clinton as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission, and later head of the U.S delegations to the World Conference on Human Rights and the Fifth World Conference of Women. In 1998 Ferraro was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and became a public advocate and frequent speaker on the disease. She died in March, 2011, of complications from the disease. 

 

Donna Zaccaro is Founder and President of Dazzling Media, a New-York based media production company. Donna served as the director and producer of "Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way." Previously Zaccaro was a long-time award-winning producer for the "Today" show at NBC News. She has also worked in politics, public affairs, marketing and communications. 

 

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, a Stockbridge resident, is an author, activist, and national public speaker. A founding editor of Ms. Magazine, she has also published two novels and twelve works of nonfiction.Pogrebin serves on the boards of Americans for Peace Now, the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication, the Brandeis University Women's and Gender Studies Program, and The Authors Guild. Her many honors include a Yale University Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, an Emmy Award for Free to Be You and Me, and dozens of awards and commendations from a variety of NGOs, civic, religious and educational institutions.