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Blowin' Up Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 91 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language: English
- Screens with: Normal Appearances
About the Film
Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal will attend in person for discussion with local filmmaker Jocelyn Glatzer.
Working within a broken criminal justice system, a team of rebel heroines work to change the the way women arrested for prostitution are prosecuted. With intimate camerawork that lingers on details and brings the Queens criminal courtroom to life, BLOWIN’ UP celebrates acts of steadfast defiance, even as it reveals the hurdles these women must face.
“A true justice league of wonder women in action. ” — The Hollywood Reporter
Official Selection of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and 2018 Hot Docs International Film Festival.
About the Filmmakers
Stephanie Wang-Breal Director
Stephanie Wang-Breal is an award-winning filmmaker and commercial director. Blowin’ Up is her third feature length film. Her first film, Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy), was nominated for an Emmy®, and was the recipient of three Grand Jury Best Documentary Awards at the AFI/ Discovery Silverdocs Film Festival, the Asian American International […] Read More
Screens with: Normal Appearances
Normal Appearances Details
- Year of Production: 2018
- Length: 5 minutes
- Color: Color
- Screening Format: Digital
- Language: English
About the Film
“An unsettling supercut of the women of #BachelorNation watching themselves being watched. I guess it’s kind of like a fan vid, but weirder?” – PL
About the Filmmakers
Penny Lane Director
Penny Lane is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker who was named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” and a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Award winner. Her most recent feature-length documentary, NUTS! premiered at Sundance 2016, where it won a Special Jury Award for Editing. It has since screened at many other film festivals such as Hot Docs, […] Read More
