In 2019, when I took the stage with director Rayka Zehtabchi to accept the Academy Award for documentary short subject for “Period. End of Sentence,” I held the Oscar high and declared “a period ...

Former Oakwood High School students Ruby Schiff, Avery Siegel and Claire Sliney executive produced the doc along with their English teacher Melissa Berton A period should end a sentence, not a woman’s ...

Commentary: The documentary Period. End of Sentence de-stigmatizes menstruation and allows us to celebrate our periods in our own way. In my case, through tampon doll and uterus pillows. Journalist ...

Sometimes, it takes one of the world's biggest stages to help break the biggest of stigmas. At Sunday night's 91st Academy Awards, one of the most powerful speeches was given by two women, director ...

In this op-ed, Nadya Okamoto, founder and executive director of PERIOD, explains why a film about menstruation winning an Oscar is a huge milestone for menstrual equity. We need to get more people ...

The Oscar winning documentary short 'Period. End of Sentence' is set in a village near India's capital Delhi and revolves around women battling patriarchy to manufacture cost-effective sanitary pads.

In 2018 the Bollywood film Pad Man tackled the stigmas of menstruation and periods in rural India, telling the story of an Indian activist named Arunachalam Muruganantham, a man who was inspired to ...

Despite the fact that periods are “icky” apparently, a film about menstruation just won an Oscar. Praise Be! Period. End Of Sentence won the award for Best Short Documentary, and the film’s director, ...