The Little Theatre will screen Left on Pearl (Susie Rivo, USA 2016, Documentary Feature Film, 55 min.) as part of the High Falls Film Festival followed by a Q&A with director Susie Rivo.

What happens when Boston's 1971 International Women's Day marchers turn Left on Pearl Street in Cambridge, to seize and occupy a Harvard-owned building for a women's center? This fast-paced documentary explores why and how hundreds of women of diverse backgrounds decided to take a radical, collective action that would change their lives. We also see how this action intersects with the fight of surrounding African-American neighborhood against displacement by Harvard University's expansion. Left on Pearl documents a watershed moment in the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement.

[source: High Falls Film Festival website, 2016-Nov-10]