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Diane Foxman and Phyllis Ploener
Robyn Faucy and Michelle Gambler
Cookie Bloom and Roberta Berson
Judy Wideberg, Stefany Holmes and Jane Rosen
Two time Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple is welcomed to the At Lunch with Rory Kennedy event.
Sue Sweeney and Karen Koblenz
Two time Oscar-winner Barbara Kopple is welcomed to the At Lunch with Rory Kennedy event.
Barbara Kopple with Sarasota Film Festival Creative Director Michael Dunaway.
Mary Braxton-Joseph, Chris Jennings and Jeanette Hyde
Mary Rabon and Ellen Bregg
Linda Doan and Dawn Mays
Judy Hamer and Linda Healy
Diane Stabile and Wendy Babb
Sarasota Film Festival President Mark Famiglio
Rory Kennedy and Sarasota Film Festival President Mark Famiglio
Rory Kennedy signs a Sarasota Film Festival surf board, which was featured at the luncheon in honor of Kennedy' s most recent film "Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton."
Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy.
Mark Bailey, Rory Kennedy and Michael Dunaway laugh as Sarasota Film Festival President Mark Famiglio makes the hang ten sign in honor of Kennedy' s film, "Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton."
Documentary filmmakers Rory Kennedy and Barbara Kopple
Former President of the United States National Committee for UN Women Carol Poteat-Buchanan
Rory Kennedy chats with Barbara Kopple and Sarasota Film Festival Creative Director Michael Dunaway.
Rory Kennedy accepts the USNC UN 2017 Impact Award at the At Lunch with Rory Kennedy event.
Rory Kennedy participated in a Q&A with Sarasota Film Festival Creative Director Michael Dunaway.
Sarasota Film Festival Creative Director Michael Dunaway laughs at Rory Kennedy' s response to a question during the Q&A portion of the event.
The foyer at the Sarasota Yacht Club was packed March 31 as guests awaited a familiar face before the At Lunch with Rory Kennedy event.
"This is becoming a habit," Creative Director of the Sarasota Film Festival Michael Dunaway joked as he greeted Rory Kennedy before the Q&A portion of the luncheon.
Kennedy's most recent film "Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton" will kick off the festival at 5:30 p.m. at the Sarasota Opera House tonight.
The two-time Oscar nominee and Primetime Emmy winner added another award to her list of accolades as she accepted the 2017 Impact Award from the Unites States National Committee for U.N. Women at the luncheon.
"I always have somewhat of a lens toward women in my films," Kennedy said.
Kennedy said after graduating from Brown University with a degree in Women's Studies, she was struck by the dearth of mechanisms to advocate for women.
"Doing it through storytelling was probably the best way," Kennedy said she concluded.
She went on to commend fellow filmmaker and Sarasota Film Festival attendee, Barbara Kopple, for the example she set with her Oscar-winning documentary "Harlan County U.S.A."
Kennedy said that film inspired her first documentary "American Hollow," which followed a woman and her 13 children living in Appalachia. The film was a raw analysis of poverty and incorporated issues such as domestic violence within the context of this Appalachian family — issues Kennedy said have compelled her throughout her life.
"(Women's) issues have been important to me my entire life," Kennedy said. "In fact, it's really why I got into filmmaking."
