
The year is 1896. The place is Sacramento. The subject is
women's suffrage. The
speaker is Susan B. Anthony. Some of her toughest critics are
women. Will they even step out of their worlds to listen?
A young Irish seamstress
named Mary Margaret is about to find out. Her world is controlled
by the conventions of her time and the traditions of women like
Miss Ames, who owns the millinery shop where she works. Then a
young woman doctor named Jennie Kellogg arrives with thoughts
of her own, and Susan B. Anthony is just a few steps away, trying
to change misconceptions about women's rights.
Each year the nonprofit
Access Sacramento selects 10 short scripts and gives screenwriters
the opportunity to turn their scripts into film. In 2007 Capital
Women by Suzanne Jones was selected for production. The
film will be shown on Access Sacramento Public Television and
in the 'A Place Called Sacramento' Film Festival October 7, 2007
at 1 PM.
The film was shot
in the Delta town of Locke at the Chinese Schoolhouse building
(http://www.locketown.com/school.htm).
HARD
IS THE FORTUNE
(The Ladies' Case)
How
hard is the fortune of all womankind,
Forever subjected, forever confined,
The parent controls us until we are wives,
The husband enslaves us the rest of our lives.
If
fondly we love, yet we dare not reveal,
But secretly languish, compelled to conceal,
Deny'd every freedom of Life to enjoy,
We're sham'd if we're kind, we're blamed if we're coy.
If
fortune we have Oh! then we must be joyn'd,
To the Man that is by our Parents Design'd,
Compel'd for to have the Man we never see,
No matter if Ugly or Handsome he be.
Then
who would be Wealthy or Strive to be great,
Since so many Dangers upon them does wait,
That Couples most happy that Love uncontroul'd,
That marrys for nothing despises the Gold.
Capital
Women, copyright 2007, all rights reserved
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