Join us for the screening of Oscar-winning short film "Period. End of Sentence." followed by a conversation with director Rayka Zehtabchi. 

Presented by the Institute for Women's Leadership.

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. College Ave. Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 126 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ

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Rayka Zehtabchi is a 26-year-old Iranian-American director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, Madaran, is an Iranian language short that won Jury awards at top film festivals and qualified for the 89th Academy Awards in 2016.

Zehtabchi’s Oscar winning short documentary, Period. End of Sentence., is about a group of village women in Northern India who start a sanitary pad-making business in an effort to improve feminine hygiene and de-stigmatize menstruation. Along with the film’s release, Zehtabchi helped co-found the non-profit “The Pad Project” to fight the stigma of menstruation and improve feminine hygiene worldwide.

Her passion is telling human stories that bring awareness and action to little-known social causes. In both documentary and narrative, she brings a naturalistic approach to her storytelling, striving for honesty and intimacy on screen.

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership—and presented as its Third Annual Anita Ashok Datar Lecture in Women’s Global Health—and Douglass Residential College.