Tracy Flannigan
Tracy Flannigan is an award winning independent filmmaker residing in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles who began making movies when she was seventeen years old.
She has worked professionally for the last fifteen years in the film business and has created numerous short films and music videos.
Her work has been screened at many film festivals throughout the United States.
Tracy’s feature-length screenplay, "The Late Great W.J.", won a fellowship at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
marks Tracy Flannigan’s
documentary feature debut.
The film was made over a five-year period in which Tracy dedicated herself to capturing the lives and performances of the all women queercore band, Tribe 8. "
Rise Above" has screened internationally and garnered the July Award for Best Documentary at Frameline, the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and earned Ms. Flannigan the Kodak Emerging Talent Award at Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Currently, Ms. Flannigan is in pre-production on a second feature-length documentary on the experiences of poverty-stricken illegal immigrants, who on a daily basis must find work outside stores like Home Depot.
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary
Rise Above:
The Tribe 8 Documentary is a feature film about the all women queercore punk band Tribe 8 directed and produced by Tracy Flannigan.
The film chronicles live performances, candid moments of their lives at work and on the road, and the controversy at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, an all women's music festival, that landed them in a quagmire of protest and praise from a fiercely divided crowd.
It also captures the truly funny and warm people behind the music and the politics.
Starting with their controversial gig at the 1994 Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, the film chronicles four years of the band.
The images presented on stage of blow jobs, sadomasochistic acts and mock castrations are not shocking the audience for shock's sake, for example
Lynn Breedlove, the lead singer wore a strap-on didlo.
Lyn often got young men up from the audience to 'service' her, this act was to break the taboo of straight male penetration.
The documentary portrays on a deeper level through the band members' intense personal disclosures.
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Question: What nationality is the director of film Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary?
Answer: United States