Streaming with closed captions
Winner—Rogers Audience Award
Persister: Women speaking up and being heard
Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together to play music. Little did they know their garage rock band would evolve into the legendary Fanny, the first all-woman band to release an LP with a major record label. Despite recording a handful of albums and amassing a dedicated fan base that included music legend David Bowie, the band all but disappeared from the records of music history. This documentary not only tells the story of the band's rocking past, but also documents its next chapter: now in their 60s, the bandmates are recording a new album. The film includes interviews with a large cadre of music icons, including Bonnie Raitt, Def Leppard's Joe Elliott and the Go-Go's Kathy Valentine. Fighting early barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, the women of Fanny are ready to take their place in the halls of rock 'n' roll fame. Aisha Jamal
Co-presented with Girls Rock Camp Toronto
Persister program presented in partnership with Oxfam Canada
MEDIA COVERAGE
- Variety - Honoring Forgotten Female Rockers of the Early 1970s
- Rolling Stone - Joe Elliot, Bonnie Raitt, Cherie Currie Talk Fanny's Influence in New Doc
- exclaim - Fanny: The Right to Rock Celebrates the Past but Gets Stuck in the Present
- She Does the City - INTERVIEW with director Bobbi Jo Hart
- POV Magazine - "Shedding light on a subject that made history and deserves to be celebrated."
- CBC Radio: Q - INTERVIEW with lead guitarist of FANNY June Millington