Girls Rock! The Movie || In Theaters March 7
Girls Rock! The Movie is a documentary about a camp for girls that teaches them how to play rock and roll, then the girls get to perform in front of an audience.
Since the camp first started in Portland seven years ago with a handful of students, it has grown tremendously to a year-round program with three sessions in the summer. Now they’ve gone international, with camps popping up in places as different as Mufreesboro, Tennessee and Sweden. What follows is a list of those camps who have aligned themselves with the Portland camp under the Girls Rock Camp Alliance banner, at which girls can expect a similar experience and curriculum.
Girls Rock Camp seems to be grooming little girls into becoming their own little Sleater-Kinneys. It looks like a great film to me. Directed by Arne Johnson and Shane KingWatch, the documentary shows the insecurities these young girls have going into the camp (one girl admittedly hates herself) and the empowerment they learn in the camp that it's fine 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.'" I wish I had learned those valuable life lessons a lot sooner in life. I especially wish I had learned them at a rock and roll camp!
The fact that this camp originated in Portland, with another camp coming to Seattle, makes me love the Northwest even more than I already do.
Location: SIFF Cinema (at the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center)
Show Dates: March 7 - 20 (show times and buy tickets here)
Price: SIFF Members $8, Non-Members $10
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