Vivian Ostrovsky (born 1945) is an experimental filmmaker and curator. Ostrovsky was born in 1945 New York City, US, and spent most of her childhood years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She completed a B.A. degree in Psychology in Paris, at the Institut de Psychologie, and later enrolled in Film Studies at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. She was later a student of Henri Langlois at the Cinémathèque Française and of Éric Rohmer at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie. In the 1970s, together with Rosine Grange, Ostrovsky founded the non-profit organization Ciné-Femmes International (first called Femmes/Media), dedicated to the promotion, distribution and exhibition of films made by women. During its active years (1975–1979) Ciné-Femmes International addressed the lack of distribution and exhibition opportunities for women’s films. It was the only organization in France at the time to initiate film screenings, programs and symposia, focusing on women's filmmaking and on women’s image on film. They toured with women's documentaries, features, animation short and experimental films, distributing them where needed, much before the advent of formats such as VHS and DVD. In 1975 - declared International Women's Year by the United Nations – Ostrovsky, together with Esta Marshall, organized a major women's film festival in Paris (Femmes/Films), as well as an international symposium – Women in Film - under the auspices of UNESCO. This event was held in St. Vincent, the Aosta Valley, with participants such as Susan Sontag, Agnès Varda, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Chantal Akerman, Mai Zetterling, Márta Mészáros, Valie Export and María Luisa Bemberg. An international association, Film Women International, was the outcome of this venture. More information...
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