Directed by Dee Mosbacher US, 2002, video, 92 min Florida Premiere

From Holly Near to Ani DiFranco, from Sweet Honey in the Rock to the Indigo Girls. this breathtaking tour of women's music takes us from the early 1970's - when lesbian folk singers were kicked off stage for being too "out" - right up to the present, when girl-rockers win Grammys. It all began in a fertile confluence of counterculture music and lesbian liberation, when a generation of female performers took to the stage and sang openly about loving other women. Soon enough, Olivia Records, the first all-women's record label, brought women's music into households across the nation, organizing tours and festivals that became the bedrock of a whole new cultural movement.

From women's music heroines like Meg Christian and Bernice Johnson Regan, we hear rare insights into the movement's early struggles to become multicultural, fun anecdotes about training all-women tech crews, and the inspiring tale of some scruffy college kids with a ditto machine who dreamed up the now-legendary Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. (Not to mention the story of "Lesbian Concentrate," a clever compilation record of anti-Anita Bryant tunes.) Weaving together photos, concert clips and behind-the-scenes footage with clips from a vast array of songs themselves, this stunning history concludes with bands like Tribe 8, the Murmurs and Sexpod who've reinvented women's music for the 21st century. For those who lived women's music, it's a joyride of memories; for those who didn't, it's a new world to discover.

Directors Dee Mosbacher (Radical Harmonies), Rene Sotile and Mary Jo Godges (Sweet Baby J'ai On Divas Breaking Through) will attend the screening and discuss their work with the audience.

Preceded by Sweet Baby Jai On Divas Breaking Through
Directed by Renee Sotile and Mary Jo Godges
US, 2002, video, 8 min.
A drum-inflected shout-out to the radical sisters of yesteryear, from Susan B. Anthony to Bessie Smith.

	Regal South Beach 3:15 pm Screening Only $12 non-members / $10 members Complete afternoon package of No Secret Anymore at 12 noon, followed by Ladies Who Brunch at Piola, and Radical Harmonies $35 non-members / $30 members Click here for details on the Ladies Who Brunch package

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