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Liza Donnelly’s Women Laughing Documentary Film Premieres Today At The Woodstock Film Festival
Liza Donnelly’s Women Laughing premieres today at the Woodstock Film Festival in Woodstock, New York.
From the film’s website:
“In Women Laughing, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for women’s humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with a diverse group of remarkable women who create cartoons for the iconic magazine. Inspired by her acclaimed book Very Funny Ladies and Liza’s own biography, the film also looks back at the fascinating history and evolution of single panel cartoons- from the 1920s, to the present- and reveals how far women have come in a field historically dominated by men.
Women Laughing includes intimate conversations with some of the most celebrated and groundbreaking cartoonists at The New Yorker including Roz Chast, Emily Flake, Sarah Akinterinwa, Liana Fink, Amy Hwang, and Bishakh Som. Liza also speaks with Emma Allen, the magazine’s first female cartoon editor. During a dynamic group roundtable discussion with ten cartoonists, we also meet artists Emily Hopkins, Maggie Larson, Arenza Pena-Popo and Victoria Roberts.”
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...the film will also be shown at the Montclair (NJ) Film Festival the very next day, Sunday, October 19, 2025. Following the screening there’ll be an extended Q&A with Director, Kathleen Hughes and Director, Liza Donnelly/Subject, Liza Donnelly, and Subjects, Emily Flake, Amy Hwang, Bishakh Som, Emily Sanders Hopkins, and Arantza Pena Popo. More information here.
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