Keynote speakers include Lisa Weber, senior executive vice president and chief administrative officer for MetLife Inc.; Debra Cohen, vice president of the Knowledge Development Society for Human Resource Management; Joyce LaValle, senior vice president of human services for Interface Americas;
They portray immigrant life on a grand scale, while Savoca -- whose 1989 debut "True Love" about a skittish young Italian-American couple getting married made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival -- offers "a view from the kitchen," Levy says in IFC's "In the Company of Women."
The AU is a continent-wide body that seeks to foster a common African approach to boosting democracy and development in a continent weighed down by conflicts, HIV/AIDS and debt.
In fact, since March 2001, when the 2001 recession began, more than 2.3 million payroll jobs have been lost, according to the Labor Department, making this recession/recovery period the most "jobless" since World War II.
The idea of beauty, intrinsically tied to sexuality, is also discussed, peppered with scenes from Nicole Holofcener's 2001 film "Lovely and Amazing," and Savoca's 1991 film "Dogfight."
Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the AU's executive the AU Commission, is banking on the AU parliament, a peace and security council modelled on the U.N. Security Council and an African human rights court to strengthen the AU's effectiveness.
Klainberg and Reticker's film takes a comprehensive and interesting look at women in the film business, though sometimes the documentary seems to be taking on too much and the directors would be better served by a narrower focus.