About the Company
Amendment 28 Films is a development production company which creates narrative feature films, television series, short films, and the occasional documentary film. Most of the films in development by Amendment 28 Films call attention to the centuries-long battles for equal rights for women and racial minorities across the globe. Many of the films’ themes also center on the importance of resilience and perseverance that both women and men have developed in the face of systemic gender and racial biases which have been prevalent for centuries.
Amendment 28 Films is named such to emphasize how women have yet to be protected by the U.S. Constitution, and, should the ERA finally be made into law, it would likely become the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The battle to have women included in the U.S. Constitution began nearly 250 years ago in March of 1776 when Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams, and asked him to include women in the constitutional documents being developed at the time to establish the United States of America. Presently speaking, however, women still struggle to fully earn their place in the U.S. Constitution.
March 22, 2022, marked 50 years since the U.S. Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states to be ratified on March 22, 1972. This amendment to the U.S. Constitution would prohibit any discrimination based on sex.
As often pointed out in the media, on January 27, 2022, the ERA met the constitutional requirements to be added to the Constitution after being ratified by 38 states, passing by the Congress majority, and following the two-year waiting period after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it.
Opponents claim the ERA should not be added to the U.S. Constitution because of procedural questions. Gender justice advocates are asking Congress to remove the deadline that opponents are using to stall passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Advocates within Congress and throughout the United States are also asking U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to withdraw the Trump administration memorandum that blocked the language of the ERA from officially being added to the U.S. Constitution as the 28th Amendment.
So, nearly 250 years after Abigail Adams wrote her letter to her husband John Adams, and more than 100 years after the ERA was first introduced to Congress, and more than 50 years after the ERA was ratified in 1972, U.S. women still do not have equal rights protections within the U.S. Constitution and the ERA has not become Amendment 28 to the U.S. Constitution.
Much as Spike Lee named his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule as an educational statement, Zel Anders named her company Amendment 28 Films, which was founded in 2022, to call out the fact women have yet to be protected by the U.S. Constitution.
The Purpose Behind the Name
“If we want our girls to benefit from the courage and wisdom of the women before them, we have to share the stories.”
