FIGHTING WORDS: NEW WORKS FROM FEMALE FILMMAKERS

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Running from October to February, Fighting Words includes screenings a DIY Independent Filmmaking workshop with Ingrid Veninger, a filmmaking dynamo who formed pUNK films with a "Nothing is Impossible" manifesto.

Ingrid will also premiere her new feature I am a good person/I am a bad person. Other films include Shooting Women, a documentary featuring interviews with camera women form around the world, performance artist Miranda July's latest feature The Future, Margarethe Von Trotta's Vision about 12th century Nun Hildegard von Bingen and the inspirational and visionary leader of the Medieval Age, Judy Chaikin's The Girls in the Band, a poignant documentary about the untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists.

	October 5 at 7:00 PM I AM A GOOD PERSON/I AM A BAD PERSON \| DIR. INGRID VENINGER \| 2011 \| CANADA \| 82 MIN Introduction and Q&A with Ingrid Veninger In Ingrid Veninger's bold new feature she portrays a filmmaker who heads off to festivals in Europe with her daughter only to end up alienating the people around her.
	October 11 at 7:00 PM SHOOTING WOMEN \| DIR. ALEXIS KRASILOVSKY \| 2008 \| USA \| 54 MIN Introduction by Shauna Townley Shot over a period of six years, Shooting Women celebrates the amazing talent and unflinching spirit of image-making women from the sets of Hollywood and Bollywood to the war zones of Afghanistan.
	WHO CARES Fri Nov 9 at 7:00 PM Sat Nov 10 at 7:00 PM Sun Nov 11 at 7:00 PM Rosie Dransfeld enters the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton’s sex trade workers to craft a powerful new film about women caught in a heartbreaking cycle of addiction, violence and prostitution.
	THE FUTURE Wed Nov 14 at 7:00 PM A darkly humorous look at what happens when a couple named Sophie and Jason decide to adopt a stray cat.
	THE GIRLS IN THE BAND Fri Nov 23 at 7:00 PM Thu Nov 29 at 7:00 PM The Girls in the Band tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30s to the present day.
	MONTREAL, BERLIN AND BACK: THE FILMS OF LYSANNE THIBODEAU Fri Nov 30 at 7:00 PM Montreal independent filmaker Lysanne Thibodeau will introduce an evening of her critically acclaimed shorts and deliver an artist talk workshop on The Cinematic Essay.
	! WOMEN ART REVOLUTION Thu Dec 6 at 7:00 PM An entertaining and illuminating history of the womens art movement featuring rare footage and interviews with Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, B. Ruby Rich.
	VISION: FROM THE LIFE OF HILDEGARD VON BINGEN Wed Dec 12 at 7:00 PM Vision is the moving, true story of famed 12th-century nun Hildegard von Bingen. Bingen was one of the most important,inspirational and visionary female leaders of the Medieval Age.
	THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE Thu Jan 17 at 7:00 PM Fri Jan 18 & Sat Jan 19 at 9:00 PM Geneis P-Orridge, the founder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV, began a series of sex reassignment surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye, who remained his wife and artistic partner for nearly 15 years.
	BAD GIRL Thu Feb 21 at 7:00 PM Bad Girl investigates alternative visions of female desire involving explicit representations of female sexuality by women featuring Carole Schneeman and Catherine Breillat.
	THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED Thu Feb 28 at 7:00 PM Featuring a live score by Julia Ryckman and friends The story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death.