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Citizen Jane is Almost Here!
How do I know?Well....These awesome write ups.Picturespeople have been takingsending us! And of course, all the happy Janies! Have a good year, Citizen Jane!
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THE WORLD BEFORE HER TONIGHT!!
As we gear up for CJFF 2013 (so great to see everyone at the volunteer meeting yesterday!!) it's a good time to look back at the past, and what better way than to watch the award-winning documentary THE WORLD BEFORE HER on PBS tonight. Click here for local listings, and also you'll be able to watch it online on the PBS website from Sept. 17-Oct. 16th at this link. THE WORLD BEFORE HER was one of my favorite films from last year's ...
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We Were All Teenage Girls Once
Taken from Nina and Lynn's Kickstarter. You know who loves animated shorts? We do! Seriously, we have a a whole program devoted to them(you can learn more about them and buy tickets in the link!). So when we hear about awesome ones trying to get made, we want to get the word out.Citizen Jane alumna filmmaker Lyn Elliot (who has a film at the festival again this year!) is hard at work trying to fund "I Was a Teenage Girl, Apparently" about a woman ...
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Opening Night Film: MAIDENTRIP!
I'm so excited about opening night film at CJFF this year I can't stand it. Maidentrip is the perfect film to kick off Citizen Jane in our 6th year and for our community to experience together on the big screen of the majestic Missouri Theatre. Since so much of the mission of Citizen Jane is to show an alternative world where women in front of the camera are more than eye candy or lame plot points, this film fits the bill ...
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CJFF 2013 Film Schedule is UP!
Check out this year's films! You are gonna like them! See them here!
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Side by Side LGBT Film Festival Needs Your Help!
As I'm sure you guys have already heard(or, if you're me, researched on the internet till two in the morning, sweat dripping down your Randian brows, anger blinding you, as you thrashed in your sheets, waiting for a hole between dimensions to open up and return you to your real home where it is 2013 and things like this don't happen...) Russia has some really fucked up LGBT laws going on right now.I wish I could use a different word to ...
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This Week In Badass
I feel like Laura Poitras is as legendary to me as Regina George was Lindsey Lohan when she walked out of the African Saraha into high school.Laura Poitras punched me in the face once. It was awesome. Who knew a humble documentary filmmaker would have a hand in bringing the biggest government conspiracy to the American People? We could guess! It's what doc directors aspire to do. When Poitras got an email last January that eventually led her to a meeting with Snowden, ...
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Let’s Talk About Sex Baby
...As far as the female gaze was concerned.No, not female gays, and stop using pictures of Shane as a cheap ploy to get more readers. Recently Mod Carousel, a boylesque group, made news with it's "parody" of the infamous Blurred Lines video. It was covered by Huffington Post, featured on the Citizen Jane Facebook page, and going down in history as one of my favorite videos ever. Seriously, if you haven't seen it, check it out. It's a great cover, a funny video, ...
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One Woman in One Hundred is NOT Okay
The Reason that Citizen Jane Exists.Pictured is Alice Guy Blache', the woman who made the first narrative film...ever.
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