MARY JANES: THE WOMEN OF WEED Documentary Debuts in New York City

Mary Janes: The Women of Weed premieres in New York City on Wednesday, March 21 at Galvanize New York at 6 p.m. The film features a powerful interview from Grammy® Award-winning singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge. The screening is hosted by Women Grow NYC and sponsored by Etain LLC.

"We are thrilled to bring Windy Borman's documentary, Mary Janes: The Women of Weed, to our community," said Tanya Osborne Women Grow NYC Market Leader. "The members of Women Grow NYC and our NYC community are the essence of #Puffragettes. This film will affirm a lot of women's commitments to pursue a goal of being a female executive working in cannabis."

March 21st is also National Rosie the Riveter Day. While the real woman who became the iconic Rosie the Riveter passed away in January 2018, the screening celebrates her legacy and the legacies of all the women who continue to shape the U.S. during Women's History Month and beyond.

Gender parity and cannabis take center stage in Mary Janes: The Women of Weed, directed and produced by filmmaker Windy Borman. "Geena Davis says, 'If you can see it, you can be it,' so seeing diverse women on camera is important to show women there are opportunities for them," says Borman. "We also know that diverse teams are more successful, so having a gender balanced team of filmmakers behind the camera was equally important. We each brought unique perspectives to the project and the intersection created a powerful Fusion that included gender parity, social justice and environmental sustainability as our core values."

Borman moved to Colorado in 2014, right when adult use of cannabis became legal. Originally a cannabis outsider, she became intrigued by the cannabis industry when she learned that women represented 36% of senior leadership in cannabis. The national average is 22%, so what was it about cannabis that was attracting female entrepreneurs? She set out to answer this question by interviewing over 40 women across the United States. By looking at the intersection of gender parity, social justice, and environmental sustainability, Borman explores how cannabis is not only an industry, but also a movement of dedicated and pioneering women she calls "Puffragettes™" (as in Pot + Suffragette).

The New York City film premiere event features a post-screening director Q&A. The event is on-track to sell out. Tickets can be purchased via ImpactFlow here!

Mary Janes: The Women of Weed explores the movement to end marijuana prohibition and Borman's own assumptions about the plant. Through a series of empowering and educational interviews with the industry's "women of weed", Windy discovers cannabis liberation intersects with the most urgent social justice issues of our time. She learns how this green revolution has big effects on environmental sustainability, ending the War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex, and the destructive domination of Big Pharma.

The film, which is Borman's third documentary, premiered at film festivals in October 2017, the same time news broke about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment and abuse. "There have been socially conscious filmmakers for decades who have spoken out against the abuse and the cover ups in the film industry," says Borman. "The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements finally give women a megaphone instead of a walkie talkie."

Women are changing the face of today's fastest growing industry - cannabis. Join us as we discover how they're also changing the world.

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