Netflix and UN Women launch special collection curated by 55 groundbreaking women in entertainment

Hollywood, Calif. March 4, 2020 - Netflix and UN Women today launched Because She Watched - a special Netflix collection of series, documentaries, and films to celebrate International Women's Day. The collection, which will be available all year, is curated by female creators from behind and in front of the camera - including Sophia Loren, Janet Mock, Salma Hayek, Yalitza Aparicio, Millie Bobby Brown, Laurie Nunn, Lana Condor, Petra Costa and Ava DuVernay.

This collaboration is about taking on the challenge of telling women's stories and showing women in all their diversity. Its about making visible the invisible, and proving that only by fully representing and including women on screen, behind-the-camera and in our narratives overall, society will truly flourish, said Anita Bhatia, UN Women Deputy Executive Director.

Created for International Women's Day, whose official theme this year is I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women's Rights, the collection celebrates the stories that have inspired the women who inspire us. These series, films and documentaries - Unbelievable and Followers to Orange Is the New Black, Lionheart and Sex Education - have started important, often hard, conversations that have helped to challenge the way we see the world.

Having a world where everyone is truly represented is about true democracy. And truly seeing ourselves allows us to envision endless possibilities for ourselves and each other , said actress Laverne Cox. Orange Is the New Black is the first project where I felt genuinely empowered as a woman thanks to the woman at the helm of the show, Jenji Kohan, and the many women directors, writers, producers, and crew members as well as the stories that centered diverse women in an unprecedented way. This show created a space and platform for me as a black openly trans woman that created space for other openly trans women of all races to be truly seen in the depth of our humanity .

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