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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 Feminist Review Trust, and The Cube Microplex. website: http://filmfest.independentheroine.org email: independentheroines@yahoo.co.uk postal: c/o Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8NQ.
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