Seen at the 4th annual Athena Film Festival at Barnard College.
In Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way, a daughter–Donna Zaccaro–pays loving tribute to a Mom who just happens to be a world-historical figure.
Geraldine Ferraro (“Geri”) was the first woman ever nominated for Vice President of the USA. Ground-breaking! Crowds cheered! But then she got crushed…
Growing animus between Progressives & Conservatives demands that we look back & ask how. (JLH: 4/5)
Click HERE for our FF2 Haiku. Not yet seen by Rich.
Click HERE to learn more about Geraldine Ferraro’s life.
Click HERE to learn more about Donna Zaccaro’s film (which is not yet posted on IMDb).
Top Photo: Geraldine Ferraro campaigning in Pittsburgh (9/29/84)
Photo Credit: Arthur Grace/ZUMAPRESS/NewsCom
Bottom Photo: Home town newspaper based in the Congressional District in which Geraldine Ferraro served as congresswoman from 1979 to 1985 celebrates the naming of a street in her honor in 2012.
Q: Does Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way pass the Bechdel Test? Yes!
There are extensive segments where Zaccaro interviews Ferraro about her life & her career. She also interviews many well-known female politicians (most especially Senator Barbara Mikulski from Maryland and Former Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton from New York), female advisors (most especially Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright), female activists (most especially Eleanor Smeal the former President of Now & founder of the Fund for the Feminist Majority), female operatives (most especially pollister Celinda Lake), etc. In addition, she speaks candidly with Former First Lady Barbara Bush. (The Mondale/Ferraro ticket went up against the Reagan/Bush ticket in the 1984 presidential campaign.)
