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February 29, 2008

Girls Rock Opens Next WEEEEEEEEK!!!!

GIRLS ROCK!" OPENS NATIONWIDE MARCH 7
NY, LA, San Francisco, Berkeley, Chicago, Portland and Seattle on
Opening Weekend.

THE MOVIE (rated PG)
At Rock 'n' Roll Camp, girls ranging in age from eight to 18 are
taught that it's OK to sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee,
wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and
that "it is 100% okay to be exactly who you are." They are taught
by indie rock chicks such as Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney
various lessons of empowerment from self-defense to anger
management. At the end of just one week, all the bands perform
songs they've written with their new bandmates for over 700
people. "Girls Rock!" follows several campers: Laura, a Korean
adoptee obsessed by death metal; Misty, who is emerging from a
life of meth addiction and gang activity; Palace, whose heavy
metal sneer belies her seven years, and Amelia, an eight-year-old
who writes experimental rock songs about her dog Pipi. What
happens to the girls as they are given a temporary reprieve from
being sexualized, analyzed and pressured to conform is truly
revolutionary.

THE FILMMAKERS
"Girls Rock!" is truly a labor of love. During the three and a
half years of production Shane King [aka COUSIN SHANE] and Arne Johnson [aka the man who should have had my BABY!] have
mortgaged houses and cashed out retirements to finish their first
film, while hundreds of others have come out of the woodwork to
help make this film a reality."

Needless to say, I am extremely, very much excited for this event.

So, it's next Friday at Cinema 21 (where we all went to movies when we were kids!) and I'll want to go to the 7 PM showing -- if you want to go with me, let me know in the next couple of days and we can order tickets en masse here (or you can just get some for yourself).