Anita Hill Visits New Tech High School As Part of Napa Valley Film Fest

The legendary Anita Hill appeared, along with documentary filmmaker Freida Lee Mock, before an appreciative crowd of students and staff at Napa's New Technology High School on Friday.

Hill is known for her 1991 Senate testimony alleging U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas made sexual statements to her while she was employed at the U.S. Department of Education and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

It was considered a groundbreaking and bold action to take at the time. Her testimony has been seen by some as the point at which sexual harassment became part of the public consciousness around gender equity in the workplace.

"The biggest challenge we face is a cultural change," Hill told the school students and staff on Friday. "You have to call out what you see.

"You cannot stand by and watch," she said.

Mock's documentary about Hill's testimony, "Anita," is part of this week's Napa Valley Film Festival.

Visit http://2013.napavalleyfilmfest.org to see schedules for screenings of "Anita" and all 125 films during the Napa Valley Film Festival. The festival ends Sunday.

New Tech High School is part of the festival's region-wide educational outreach efforts.

During the week of the Napa Valley Film Festival, over 2,500 Napa Valley middle school and high school students will attend screenings of the documentaries "Girl Rising;" "Magic Bracelet;" "Sewing Hope;" "The Last White Knight;" "Fabian Debora," "A Life for Art;" "Miss Representation;" and "Anita."