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Synopsis
CIVIC-MINDED RESPONSIBLE THRILL-SEEKING FEMALES is a docufiction following Erin Cramer rediscovering videotapes from a documentary that she started in 1992 about Valerie Solanas—author of The SCUM Manifesto who shot Andy Warhol in 1968. Curious, Erin rewatches the tapes….
The feminists and Factory denizens remain fascinating…but who is that woman in her twenties pressing them on the sexual politics of The Factory? And why did she never tell her cameraperson to lay off the Zoom??
Grappling with her producer Alex about how to finish the film, Erin re-stages the tapes with actors lip-syncing the interviews, alongside dramatizations, and archive.
CIVIC-MINDED RESPONSIBLE THRILL-SEEKING FEMALES recounts Valerie appearing in Warhol’s film I, A MAN, her drive to get him to produce her play UP YOUR ASS that ended with her shooting him. The feminists who understood the shooting as political and came to Valerie’s aid.
With, women’s rights again under attack, this complex rebel continues to fascinate.
Bio
Erin is an Emmy-winning screenwriter and director who makes documentaries and fiction. Currently, she is writing an original thriller, You Be Me, for Ridley Scott Associates in London where she lives. Erin recently directed two feature-length documentaries about race in America, Impact of Hate: Charlottesville and The Ballad of Botham Jean, both for October Films / Investigation Discovery.
Credits
Producer - Alexandra Juhasz
