FairShot Film Series: Wise Women - Humanity's Untold Origins
Film Screening at The Angelika Film Center NYC 
October 28th from 6:00-9:00 pm

​Overview​

 

For too long, women have been asked to fade from view - right when the world needs them most. Join us for a powerful evening of discussion.​

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“It’s time to remember who taught humanity how to be human.” – Margaret Cho, Narrator & Executive Producer

Join Gender Fair and Wise Women for a powerful evening of film, conversation, and connection, featuring Rhode Island State Senator, Lori Urso, and other trailblazers to be announced soon.

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This exclusive screening of WISE WOMEN — HUMANITY’S UNTOLD ORIGINS, featuring Margaret Cho, is part of our FairShot Film Series, showcasing bold, diverse stories of trailblazers and untold stories of women in history.

This feature documentary rewrites the story of human evolution by centering the leaders history forgot: post-menopausal women. What began as a filmmaker’s attempt to help his wife through menopause becomes a sweeping rediscovery of how post-reproductive women shaped civilization — and why it’s time to listen to them again.

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Why do humans — alone among primates — experience menopause? What if it isn’t decline, but the evolutionary leap that made cooperation, leadership, and civilization possible? What Henze and Debroux uncover is as urgent as it is groundbreaking: The Wise Women Hypothesis — a science-backed theory showing how elder women, freed from childbearing, became the steady hands navigating the social complexity of early society, managing fire, guiding kinship, preserving knowledge, and expanding the brainpower that made us human.

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Told with bold storytelling, humor, and insight — featuring narrator and executive producer Margaret Cho, produced by Oscar-winner Jonathan Sanger, and executive produced by Madeline Di Nonno of the Geena Davis Institute — Wise Women is more than a film. It’s a reminder that humanity rose under women’s leadership, and a call to let them lead again.

After the film, stay for a dynamic panel discussion on the role we can play in supporting women — a timely conversation exploring leadership, menopause advocacy and how we can reshape workplaces for the future of humanity.

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Panelists include:

Lori Urso, Rhode Island Senator; Gloria Feldt, Speaker, Author, CEO & Co-Founder of Take The Lead; and other trailblazers leading the conversation in menopause health and breaking new pathways for women’s leadership.

 

Don't miss this night of storytelling, advocacy, and community. Whether you're part of the 50% of the population that will go through menopause, HR leader, manager, or ally — this evening offers inspiration and insight for all.

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Angelika Film Center & Cafe - New York

18 West Houston Street

New York, NY 10012

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Agenda​

05:30 PM - 06:00 PM

Doors Open

 

06:00 PM - 07:30 PM

Wise Women: Humanity's Untold Origins

 

07:30 PM - 09:00 PM

Panel Discussion and Reception

 

Organized by Gender Fair