“Forget Drew Barrymore’s recent foray into rollerderby: Chip Mabry’s Brutal Beauty gives an honest shot of girl-powered adrenaline in his documentary on Portland’s own Rose City Rollers.” – Willamette Week “Brutal Beauty contextualizes the sport of roller derby and explores how participating in a full-contact sport can challenge our notions of traditional femininity.” – Bitch [...]
Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
From the Co-Director of Christmas on Mars – It’s Rodeo Time. At the Women’s Prison. Really!
Professor
A rabbi with a Ph.D. and a Glock teaches the children of Iowa.
Contrary Warrior: The Life and Times of Adam Fortunate Eagle
From the filmmakers of the award-winning Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart comes a documentary about one of our most important and controversial contemporary Native Americans leaders. Filmed in Nevada on the Paiute-Shoshone Indian Reservation, Contrary Warrior is an intimate first-person account of the life and work of Red Lake Reservation Minnesota-born American Indian activist, artist, ceremonial leader, author – and enemy of the state – Adam Fortunate Eagle.
Cropsey
A True Crime Story, About Urban Legends, and the Defense of Community “The cinematic version of peeking under the bed and not breathing a sigh of relief.” – John Anderson, The New York Times “… comes on like a true crime caper.” – Eric Hynes, Time Out New York “Beyond-disturbing.” – New York Magazine “The [...]
