iDFA Session 3 Alert! - Girls Rock!
iDFA Session 3 Alert!
Documentary filmmakers Arne Johnson and Shane King will screen their new film "Girls Rock" and host a Q&A session. www.girlsrockmovie.com.
iD Film Academy - Session 3 Alert! - Girls Rock!
"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; 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."
Arne Johnson, Producer/Co-Director
Arne has been a film reviewer, entertainment journalist, film festival worker and screenwriter for more than a decade. But he got his real start in movies working with fellow 7th grader Shane King on the Super 8mm classic “Cala ‘n’ Ala Honey Baked”. They collaborated again 20 years later, as Arne wrote the screenplay for Shane’s "Park Files", a film for kids about native plant restoration. Along with Shane, he has hosted a radio show called "Doc Talk", about documentary film. Previous to this life of writing, editing and filmmaking Arne was an educator. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, not far from where the Camp takes place, though he was born in San Francisco. He now resides in Oakland, where he rarely uses the B.A. in English Lit he earned from S.F. State University, making videos for environmental organizations and petting his cats.
Shane King, Co-Director/Cinematographer
Shane has been working as a shooter, editor and producer for the past 10 years. He is now a principal in the production company Keela Films. Shane’s productions have taken him from steamy Amazonian jungles to some of the finest wineries in Australia and countless trips across the U.S. Shane continues to find the time to teach documentary production and Editing at The Film Arts Foundation, The Bay Area Video Coalition and at his alma mater San Francisco State University. His educational short "The Park Files" won 7 awards at the International Wildlife Film Festival. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he met and started having grand adventures with Arne in the 5th grade. Now Shane wants to make a Zombie movie.
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