During the 1970s there was a global call to action in various spheres of the lives of women with the evolution of universal women’s rights movement, the development of second-wave feminism, the emergence of the Senegal-based bilingual feminist research group the Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), and the declaration of the United Nations Decade of Women from 1976 to 1985, all of which drastically influenced the development and analysis of women’s academic studies, feminist film theory, and the visual representation of women, globally. These movements have been credited by scholars as having engendered an understanding of universal sisterhood, from which emerged a flurry of conferences and media that reflected the diverse experience of women internationally.[1]