Reviews and Festivals
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“Intriguing…fascinating…the film reminds us Ferraro’s nomination was every bit the milestone.”
— Washington Post
"An encomium for the first woman to run on a major party’s ticket for the White House…. Clips of her in public settings depict a remarkable communicator whose straight talk and logic-driven arguments would be welcome on the current political scene.”
— Hollywood Reporter
“Cuts smartly to the inspiring essence of Ferraro’s 1984 VP run, a watershed moment for female political representation, swaddled in a nonsense Queens toughness.”
— TimeOut, New York
“Stirring…the story of a hard-driving woman who found ways to manage and transcend the constraints of a paternalistic era…..As the film shows, history is powerful. To her credit, director Donna Zaccaro, Ferraro’s daughter, did not ignore controversies and setbacks in her mother’s career. But the thrust of the film…is uplifting: Ferraro’s push against the boundaries of her time, the emotion and exuberance of her rise from poverty to the apex of politics….”
— The Daily Beast
“Although she was defeated, her candidacy was a seminal moment in politics that was validated by the subsequent leap in the number of women holding office. In three decades, political women have gone from anomalies to mainstream, though they still are underrepresented.”
— Albert R. Hunt, New York Times / Bloomberg News
“Ferraro’s campaign eased America’s long-running doubt that a woman could be accepted at that level of national leadership. She reset the bar at a place from which it couldn’t be lowered.”
— New York Daily News
“Though Ferraro may have paved the way, ‘Geraldine’ reminds us how long and pitted the road can be.”
— Los Angeles Times
SCREENED AT
World Premiere, Hamptons International Film Festival
DOCNYC
Closing Night Film
Women & Film Voices Festival
River Run Film Festival
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