Episode 118: Mir Harris, Time's Up, Activist

August 21, 2018 by Julie Harris Oliver in activism, business, Coaching, DGA, Digital content, Directors, Diversity, documentary, entertainment, entrepreneur, Film & TV, healthcare, hollywood, human rights, Independent Film, LGBT, PGA, Politics, PTSD, Studios, women, WGA

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Mir is the Manager of Operations and Community Engagement at Time's Up. I was first introduced to Mir through a piece she wrote that knocked me out. I asked her to read it on the show. Mir is an activist, a thoughtful and conscious leader, and possesses a personal power that is expressed through service. Prepare yourself, you are about to be inspired. I mean no pressure, I don’t mean to oversell it. You tell me. (You’ll be inspired.)

EP 110: Heidi Basch-Harod, Executive Director Women's Voices Now

June 26, 2018 by Julie Harris Oliver in Diversity, documentary, entertainment, Film & TV, film festivals, hollywood, immigration, Independent Film, LGBT, Politics, women, human rights, activism

Heidi Basch-Harod is the Executive Director of Women’s Voices Now, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, which uses the medium of film to advocate for global women’s rights. They carry out their mission with an annual online film festival, a free streaming archive of international women’s rights based films, educational programs, screening events, and multimedia workshops.

She has spent her career as a human rights activist and also is a producer of the award-winning feature documentary Honor Diaries, and the highly-acclaimed short film, In Search of America, Inshallah.

Among other quotables, she said this, “no matter who you are or where you’re from women have incredible capabilities for survival.” Isn’t that the truth?