A Good Uplift
By Faye Lederman, Cheryl Furjanic, Eve Lederman
(13 minutes)
A light-hearted documentary about a Lower East Side lingerie shop where Jewish grandmother Magda will size you up, hook you in, and send you home in the perfect bra. With the wink of an eye and the tug of a strap, Magda supports her customer’s self-esteem and bustlines. “An engaging documentary” says Leslie Camhi at the Village Voice.

Grrlyshow
By Kara Herold
(19 minutes)
An 18-minute explosion of fringe feminism and print media, Grrlyshow is a powerful and rebellious message from voices often left unheard. It explores the wealth of alternative magazines being created by women including BUST, Bitch, Bamboo Girl, and others. “Aware, irreverent, entertaining, even brilliant…” says Al Hoff, Thrift Score zine.

Year of the Woman
By Sandra Hochman
(80 minutes)
The “lost feminist movie,” a full-length documentary set at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. Filmmaker Hochman went to Miami with an all-woman documentary crew to make the first ever film on the women's movement and she returned with extraordinary footage featuring such cultural icons as Warren Beatty, Shirley Maclaine, Gloria Steinem, and Flo Kennedy. The hand-held camera follows Hochman as she prods male politicians, delegates and celebrities into sharing their views on women and the feminist movement.

Betsy Benson and the Bowtie Boy(s)
By JoEllen Martinson and William Scott Rees
(10 minutes)
A short film with lessons about life, love and chocolate bunnies from a recreated children’s book story. A teen fashionista bosses around a crew of boy toys to help film the cinematic vision of her favorite childhood picture book, Betsy Benson & The Chocolate Bunnies . Re-imagining what she can't remember and re-writing the passages she finds unpalatable, the film patches together pages of the original book, behind the scenes clips of the teen's no-budget basement production, and Easter-colored clips of the storybook come to life.

Sarah at 12
By Julia Inez Gandelsonas
(15 minutes)
12-year-old Sarah has considered Sandy her best friend for as long as she can remember. When Kelly, the most popular girl in the class begins to take an interest in Sarah, Sarah is faced with one of the most difficult decisions of her life—whether to hold on or move on. 

Girl Wrestler
By Diane Zander
(60 minutes)
This hour-long documentary follows a Texas teen as she upsets traditional expectations by insisting that girls and boys should be able to wrestle on the same mat. It follows a crucial period in Tara’s wrestling career—the last year that she is allowed to wrestle boys under state guidelines. “An intriguing look at modern girlhood” says Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News.

I Was A Strip Club Virgin
By Rachel Max
(3 minutes)
Short humorous animation about a girl’s first time visiting a strip club.

Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore
By Sarah Jacobson
(1 hour and 38 minutes)
With an introduction by the late filmmaker’s sister, Lee Jacobson.

A punk rock coming-of-age story that details the sexual awakening of Jane, a suburban high-schooler who works at the coolest art theater in Minneapolis. With the help of her quirky co-workers and relationships of varying success, she tries to discover who she is and what’s up with this whole sex-and-relationship thing.

Womanly Perfection
By Therese Shechter
(1 minute)
An animated exploration of beauty as seen through the lens of fashion
magazines.

A Girl Named Kai
By Kai Ling Xue
(9 minutes)
A shortfilm that explores the tension between tradition, coming out in a Chinese family, and the bravery it takes to assert your true identity.

Stripped
By Jill Morley
(74 minutes)
A documentary about strippers including Billie, a '50s-style burlesque performer, Vicki who has an MFA in dance from NYU, Angela, an artist, Susan, a writer for the Village Voice, and the filmmaker herself. "The documentary Stripped is a rare honest expose of the flesh life," says Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly. Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jill Morely.