As an Official Selection for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, The Russian Woodpecker description in the film catalog reads– A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it, amid growing clouds of revolution and war. World Premiere at 2015 Sundance Film Festival — World Cinema Documentary Competition. That is only the beginning. Fedir Alexandrovich, artist,...
Lead singer of punk rock band, Traitors, Malika (Chaimae Ben Acha) engages her feminine heroic as she tries to find a way to change her world and escape the traditional life mapped out for women in Tangiers emulating Joe Strummer of the Clash, I’m so bored with Morocco but what can I do? In the opening scene, the all-girl band carry on raucously driving their van wildly through the urban Moroccan streets, loud music playing until finally...
Facing racism, sexism, exclusion and just plain dismissal from a male dominant music establishment, The Girls in the Band, a documentary directed by Judy Chaikin, is about female big band and jazz instrumentalists whose stories and experiences as women overcame social and gender repressive obstacles to just wanting to play their music– in bands, in clubs, on the road, on stage –with passion. The film opens centered on a famous group shot of...
