- “Help help it’s CIRCUS AMOK!!!!” With the Citizen Jane Film Festival kicking off tomorrow and Jennifer Miller, a gender-challenging bearded lady, gracing the cover of this week’s issue of Vox, there are a lot of excitingly bizarre weekend happenings to look forward to here in Columbia. Going along with Citizen Jane’s circus-inspired theme, Miller herself will serve as the festival’s ...
- Advice from an ex-Citizen Jane newbie I attended the Citizen Jane Film Festival for the first time last year. I was in a class where we learned how to write art reviews and had been assigned to cover a film, Cooked by documentarian Judith Helfand, for Vox. Even as a woman, I was intimidated by the festival because the intense aura ...
- Citizen Jane 2012: “Wonder Women!” from the beginning This VoxTalk blogger has been following the super-documentary since its first fundraising steps.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: “Made in India” At first glance, Lisa Switzer is the all-American stereotype. She’s loud, overweight and Texan. But she has one big problem. After using every method imaginable, she is unable to conceive a baby. Together with her husband, Brian, they start researching surrogacy and stumble across the latest industry being outsourced to India — pregnancy.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: About Love… About Love… technically fulfills the assertions of its title, though largely without the bubblegum nonsense of Hollywood sentimentality. The collection of six short films playing at Citizen Jane Film Festival instead focuses on discontent. The inexplicable desire to remain attached, the elasticity of love’s juggled definition and the unshakeable strive for emotional ideals in the ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Apache 8 We learn early on in Apache 8 how tough a female firefighter has to be: more so than their male counterparts. This film directed by Sande Zeig recalls a time when an all-woman firefighter crew, comprised of members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe in eastern Arizona, successfully contained and extinguished some of the nation’s ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Atomic Mom Atomic Mom is a documentary recording the emotional history felt by two generations of women from two families – Emiko Okada and her daughter in Japan, and Pauline and her daughter M.T. Silvia in America – affected by the 1945 atomic bomb. Filmmaker M. T. Silvia takes the audience on a deeply personal journey and ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Bob and the Monster Bob Forrest is best known for his appearances on Dr. Drew Pinsky’s reality show, Celebrity Rehab, where he tries to lead addicted musicians and actors like Tom Sizemore, Steven Adler, and Shifty Shellshock to sobriety. However, in Keirda Bahruth’s 2011 documentary, Bob and the Monster, we see a different side of Forrest. This movie examines ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: BoCoMo: At Your Service Stephens College junior Jacqui Joyce and recent Stephens graduate Hannah Robins teamed up for the short documentary, “BoCoMo: At Your Service” — an inside look into some of Columbia’s resident restaurants. Shot in the past three weeks, BoCoMo interviewed servers from Ernie’s Café and Steakhouse, Bangkok Gardens, Hooters, CC’s City Broiler and Peking Restaurant. ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same Girl meets girl. Girls fall in love. One is an alien that has been sent to Earth to get her heart broken. Love is a four-letter word that can bring both tears and laughter. In Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same love does both. The focus of the film follows the developing romantic relationship between ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Crossroads “Crossroads” is a compilation of five short films about people at crossroads in their lives. Using widely different techniques and plotlines, the first four films in the series each explore themes of female sexuality. The last film, by contrast, takes a look at kindness in a war-torn world. Together, the films create a diverse yet ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Dish For Maya Gallus, waitressing was her first job when she was 15 years old. It was an experience that stayed with her throughout her life. But unlike many waitresses, Maya made a movie about it. She wrote and directed the film Dish, which examines the work life of women at various restaurants in Canada, Paris ...
- Citizen Jane film review: Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey Chris Roll reviews Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey. This film tells the story of Arnel Pineda, the fourth and current lead singer of the classic rock band Journey.
- Citizen Jane film review: Empire Builder Hannah Burkett reviews Empire Builder, a film about a woman coming to terms with her marital displacement and her role as a mother.
- Citizen Jane film review: Existence Whitney Sommers recaps Existence. In this post-apocalyptic drama, the main character, Freya, is trapped in a rotting world, not only physically, but emotionally.
- Citizen Jane film review: From the Archives: (Re)Discovering Our history Dandan Zou reviews From the Archives: (Re)Discovering Our History, a collection of various clips that portray the struggle and hardships that women face throughout history.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: It Happens to Us and Taking our Bodies Back It is easy to forget, in our age of relative sexual liberation, the plight of the American woman in the ’60s and early ’70s. Abortions could only be obtained illegally and at great risk, and a larger conspiracy of silence regarding women’s health and bodily functions left women ignorant and powerless to practice contraception, visit ...
- Citizen Jane film review: Love and Other Anxieties Olivia Frame reviews Love and Other Anxieties. This film gives the audience a look at love through the eyes of students, happily married couples and young adults who have no intention of committing.
- Citizen Jane film review: Orchids: My Intersex Adventure Dani Kinnison reviews Orchids: My Intersex Adventure . This film follows Australian filmmaker Phoebe Hart’s exploration of her intersex condition known as Androgyny Insensitivity Syndrome.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Sarabah Carefully entwining music and motion picture, Sarabah follows Sister Fa, a rapper/activist from Senegal, on her campaign to end female genital cutting, or excision.
- Citizen Jane film review: Sexy Baby Jaclyn DiPasquale reviews Sexy Baby , a film that serves as a reality check for just how dangerous sexual images are to not just young women, but women in general.
- Citizen Jane film review: SHORTS: About Love Lauren Hill reviews SHORTS: About love, a series of short films that portrays the complexity, the bliss, the demise and the drama of what so many people are desperate for.
- Citizen Jane film review: SHORTS: Portraits Eric Staszczak recaps another short film program, PORTRAITS, which depicts one director’s reflection on her childhood, humanitarian efforts in West India and the quest for one New Zealander’s identity, among many other narratives.
- Citizen Jane film review: SHORTS: The Secret Lives of Girls Laura Heck reviews some of the best films from the Secret Lives of Girls collection, a group of short films created by girls 18 or younger. The widely varied films show the resilient, thoughtful and realistic mindset of teenagers today.
- Citizen Jane film review: Sita Sings the Blues Alyssa Caruso reviews Sita Sings the Blues, an animated film. The movie is an autobiographical love story of Nina Paley in parallel to a romantic Indian epic Ramayana and Sita.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Southern Belle For one week every summer, the South attempts to rise again in Tennessee. This time it has nothing to do with the war.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Spirit of the Bluebird Beating drums thump and drone in the opening of Spirit of the Bluebird that fall in sync and pull at the beatings of a heart. These drums, along with native, tribal chanting lay a rhythmic background for the documentary’s main stage — a black canvas of fence posts and alley walls — on which erupts ...
- Citizen Jane film review: The List Zach Kerns reviews The List directed by Beth Murphy. The film explores the struggles of thousands of Iraqis who are threatened by native extremist groups and who appeal to the U.S. government for help.
- Citizen Jane film review: The Playroom Elisa Lopez reviews The Playroom by Julie Dyer. This movie tells the story of a ’70s-era family who tries to be perfect and fails.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: The Secret Lives of Girls The Secret Lives of Girls, a compilation of 18 short films, is a whirlwind offering of a little bit of everything. From as far away as Fiji and Madagascar to as near as Elm Street, The Secret Lives of Girls brings together filmmakers that have one thing in common: they are all under 18 years ...
- Citizen Jane Film Review: The Work of 1000 “Be a person with a vision and make a commitment to it,” is one of the last things Marion Stoddart says in her documentary film Work of 1000, which details Stoddart’s life and work in healing one of the most polluted rivers in America.
- Citizen Jane film review: The World Before Her Amanda Del Buono reviews The World Before Her. This film tells the tale of two different young Indian women who struggled to discover their identities.
- Citizen Jane Film Review: Un Cirque de New York Unapologetic and unabashed like its star Jennifer Miller’s beard, Un Cirque de New York hits like a hammer. From French director Frédérique Pressmann comes a biting documentary capturing a slice of New York City at the turn of the last century. It follows sideshow performer Miller, her troupe of misfits and its 1999 summer ...
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: A Wake Coinciding appropriately with the circus-inspired theme of the Citizen Jane Film Festival, A Wake felt a bit like a freak show. With improv-driven dialogue and insane plot twists, the film centers on the death of an eccentric theatre director and a neurotic troupe of actors who are invited to his Canadian home for a night ...
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: Emerging Voices Just like Citizen Jane is a new voice in the film festival circuit, the short “Emerging Voices” film screening in Charter Auditorium at Stephens College gave directors new and seasoned an opportunity to show off their early works.
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: Somewhere Between China’s one family, one child policy has children getting placed in orphanages at very young ages. On top of being an orphan, being female is another challenge.
- Citizen Jane Movie Review: The Real Princesses Being a princess is not nearly as glamorous as it appears. At least, that’s what the young filmmakers of The Real Princesses sought to prove.
- Citizen Jane review: SHORTS: Emerging Voices Elizabeth Pearl reviews Emerging Voices. This film features a collection of eight short documentaries that convey the voices of emerging filmmakers.
- Citizen Jane review: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines Phalene de la Valette reviews Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. The documentary examines the role of heroic female models such as Wonder Woman in our society.
- Citizen Jane Strongwoman Competition Check out this video of the Strongwoman Competition from the Citizen Jane Film Festival 2011.
- The making of the covers Today’s edition of Vox was published with two different covers. Our readers who pick up the magazine on a newsstand will receive the first cover pictured above (Bearded Lady Tells All!) and our readers who get the magazine inside the Columbia Missourian will receive the second cover pictured above (Framing Filmmaking’s Future). We went with two ...
- Vox Exclusive: Video Interviews from Citizen Jane Watch our interview with Citizen Jane Co-Director Paula Elias and Circus Amok Ringleader Jennifer Miller at the opening reception of the Citizen Jane Film Festival. Video produced by Sarah Redohl
- Winner of the Citizen Jane Strongwoman competition announced The Strongwoman semifinals were held at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts in downtown Columbia on Sunday, Oct. 2. The all-women arm-wrestling competition began the closing ceremonies of the Citizen Jane Film Festival 2011. Tia Thompson, the winner of the competition, will receive a trophy and the title of the ...
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