Press release

Independent Heroines 2005 film festival
February 4-10th 2005 at The Cube Cinema Bristol

Independent Heroines 2005 film festival: seven days of
films, discussions, seminars, workshops, live music
and performance at the Cube Cinema, Bristol.

Independent Heroines 2005 is a feminist film festival
programmed around the theme of heroines; women who
work, create and exist on their own terms, outside the
narrow confines of what society says a woman can be.
Themed events reveal inspirational figures past and
present from such diverse fields as film, music, art,
literature, burlesque dancing, radical cheerleading,
skateboarding and politics. Features, shorts,
performers, experts and artists are brought together
to celebrate and explore these women's lives and work.


The festival includes a number of UK premieres
including an all-girl skateboarding video, 'Getting
Nowhere Faster', and 'The Velvet Hammer Burlesque', a
documentary about the US burlesque troupe of the same
name. Also screening are 'Year of the Woman' a 'lost
feminist classic' documentary from 1973, a night of
feminist B-movies, 'Edgeplay' a documentary about
1970s girl rock group The Runaways, and 'An Angel at
My Table' as part of a tribute to late author Janet
Frame.

Curated by Lady Lucy and Lisa Brook the Independent
Heroines film festival started as part of Ladyfest
Bristol, a music, film, art and poetry festival
dedicated to female creativity and expression which
took place in August 2003 at venues all around Bristol
and led to the establishment of the Here shop on
Stokes Croft and Local Kid, Venue's 'top banana'
promoter of the year 2004.

The Independent Heroines 2003 programme can be viewed
at:
http://sparror.cubecinema.com/ladyfestbristol/ladyfestfilm.htm

Supported by South West Screen, The UK Film Council,
The Feminist Review Trust, and The Cube Microplex.

website: http://filmfest.independentheroine.org
email: independentheroines@yahoo.co.uk
phone: Lisa Brook: 07817617788   Lady Lucy:
07946039683
postal: c/o Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Kingsdown,
Bristol, BS2 8NQ.

 Perhaps you could share with us what you thought of the Irigaray talk early in December.  As you know I arrived too late for the talk but caught the discussion afterwards which was very interesting.  I bought one of her books and I have been dipping in to over the holidays and find there is lots there that is relevant to our concerns. 

Happy 2005

Helen

Wednesday, 5 January 2005

Happy to have at last located the blog and privileged to make the first posting of the new year, I find myself at a loss at to what to say. Increasingly, I am concerned about the personal impact of my understandings about gendered relationship. Clearly, this is slippery territory and I am hoping that dialogue with others will enable me to get a stronger grasp on a relational landscape which looks very different from the early days of feminism.

Terryl