Tomboys!
Feisty Girls and Spirited Women
2004 | 28 minutes | Color | DVD | Order No. 05854
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PRESS
“An excellent video not only for the general public but also for those who work with girls and young people. It emphasizes the importance of diversity and the value of encouraging all children to explore who they are and who they want to be."
"Elicits laughter, tears and deep satisfaction. It is perfect for use in high school and college classes."
“Recommended for junior high through college students.”
“A rambunctious documentary that gets to the heart of the matter by talking with ‘tomboys’ of all ages and what it feels like to be embodied, lively, and full of themselves”
“Well-constructed, uplifting, and wholly inspiring… valuable for secondary schools as well as college women’s studies, psychology, and gender studies courses.”
“…offers insights into the ways that spirited women have defied convention. The film should empower girls and hearten those who dare to be different.”
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Long Island Gay and Lesbian FF, Audience Award
- Go Girls! at Symphony Space
- Brattleboro Women’s Film Festival
- Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival
- Northampton Independent Film Festival
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Julie Akeret is an Emmy-award-winning documentary filmmaker with a BA from Columbia University in psychology. For the past thirty years, she has worked in various capacities of the film industry as a sound editor, camera operator, director and producer. Her films focus on education, the arts, and rights issues. Her first film, Not Just Garbage, a film about Mierle Ukeles, artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, premiered at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and won Best Documentary Short in the USA film Festival in 1986. Julie received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and grants from foundations such as the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, The Sister Fund and the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts among others. In 2012, Julie received a Boston/New England Emmy for Theatre on the Edge, a film exploring the collaborative process at Double Edge, a laboratory theatre based on a farm in Western Massachusetts. Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy through Picture Books, released in 2015, also received a Boston/New England Emmy and was acquired by APT for national distribution. Julie Akeret's films are distributed nationally to educational institutions through Women Make Movies, Filmakers Library and Bullfrog Films. Julie now lives in Leeds, Massachusetts with her husband and two children. (01/20)
Christian McEwen is a freelance writer and cultural activist. Her play, "Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money", opened in Spring 2014 with four sold-out performances. Her latest book is World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down (2011), now in its fifth edition. A linked booklet of "slow quotes" - The Tortoise Diaries - will appear in Fall 2014.
McEwan is the editor of two lesbian anthologies, "Naming the Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry" and, with Sue O'Connell, "Out the Other Side: Contemporary Lesbian Writing," both published by Virago Press in the U.K. (1988), and Crossing Press in the U.S.A. (1989).
She has also edited "Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure," "True Grit & Real Life" (Beacon Press, 1997), and, with Mark Statman, "The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing" (Teachers & Writers, 2000).
A collection of her poems, "In the Wake of Home," was published by Meadowlark Press in 2004.
McEwen has taught poetry to teachers through the Creative Arts in Learning Program at Lesley University, and also worked as a writer-in-the-schools through the Teachers & Writers Collaborative and ALPS (Alternative Literary Programs). McEwen lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. (8/14)
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