The Women's Center in Marshall University is going to hold a film festival 'Lunafest', for the first time. The fest aims at raising funds for breast cancer research and the treatment of some more problems in women.

The film festival will be organized in lower level of the Memorial Student Center. The program will start at 7pm and the film screening will begin at 8pm on Wednesday.

Sharon Pressman, Executive Director of the CONTACT Rape Crisis Center in Huntington, will deliver the keynote address.

"I will be speaking on different types of sexual violence and specific victim's stories and how they have been sexually assaulted and how we've been able to assist them in their recovery", said Pressman.

"We will be using funds to provide advocacy services to victims.

This will maintain the hotline and provide crisis intervention services and follow up services", it was added.

Sharon also explained that CONTACT takes up the task of offering counseling services to the victims of rape and sexual exploitation and to their families.

Lunafest, the fest will be screening 9 films based on the life and achievement as well as struggle in the life of women.

"All the films are by, for and about women", said Claire Snyder, Graduate Assistant in the Marshall's Women's Center. The main sponsor of Lunafest will be Clif Bar & Company.