Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising's image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way, that moves and empowers them to take action.

This follow-up to Jean Kilbourne's award-winning 1979 documentary, KILLING US SOFTLY, further probes the harmful effects of stereotypical and sexist images in advertising. Kilbourne conducts a lecture within the film, displaying still images of women, men, children, and violent crime via a slide projector. By emphasizing the dehumanization of women by television's body-image obsession, she teaches viewers how America is taught to categorize women primarily as sex objects.

Other worlds lull softly around us, and sometimes if we're in the right place at the right time, they reveal themselves to us. Sleep studies, unseen felines, and strange locals weave a web over the top of Mount Washington, a sleepy hilltop neighborhood in Los Angeles. A World Softly Lulls is a foray into time and memory, through the eyes of an unlikely cat sitter.

16 screens, 10-20 minutes. It is so real. A remote and intimate world.