Screening Date: Sat. Nov. 16, 2024
Time: 11:00am
Venue: Parkway Theater
Cost: $15 advance | $20 door
Premiere Status: MN
Run Time/Year/Country: 79min, 2024, USA
Director: Dana Flor
Co-presented by The Current
Ani DiFranco crashed onto the music scene in the early ‘90s, a thundering new voice in the cultural wilderness, unapologetically bisexual, political and feminist. She toured relentlessly, thrashing out hundreds of frenzied shows that were part mosh pit, part hootenanny and part full-on tent revival, then selling cassette tapes from the trunk of her car to make it to the next gig. Ani became a worldwide phenomenon when she beat the male-dominated music industry at its own game by founding Righteous Babe Records, the first “woman-run non-corporate queer-happy” label, still going strong after nearly 35 years. The press called her “an entrepreneurial wonder” and “the industry’s worst nightmare.” Prince called her “my hero.” Ani simply called herself a folk singer, dedicated to art, activism and staying true to herself, no matter the cost.
1-800-ON-HER-OWN takes us on a wild cinematic road trip, from DiFranco’s punk-folk past to her life today as she reinvents herself as a passionate activist and revered rock star. Throughout the ride, she’s brutally honest, famously foul-mouthed and totally hilarious. Her daily challenges resonate as we reveal both an enduring, inspiring musical icon and a very relatable contemporary “everywoman” with her own epic fails and hard-won victories.
PRECEDED BY
Film Title: Farm Grrrl Folk Punk: Motherwort
Director: Austin Bunn and the students of "Documenting Local Lives"
Run Time/Year/Country: 5min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: World
Synopsis: The female members of the punk band Motherwort band live and work on farms in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. What do local food systems, punk music, rural life, and the fury of middle-age have to do with each other? Combining hauntingly beautiful three-part harmonies and folk traditions, with driving punk beats and catchy melodies, they create a sound that is distinctly their own. This short documentary was produced by the students in "Documenting Local Lives," supported by the Mellon Foundation.
