http://subs.zinester.com/36157 This is your update on events and happenings related to the documentary about the Rock 'n' Roll camp for girls. en http://archives.zinester.com/36157/150653.html?rss=1 Hello Rockers,

Sorry it's been so long since our last missive, it's been a strange mixture of
quiet news and lotsa busy. But things are really picking up now that we're
getting closer to March, and there's much to report.

Firstly, some of you may already know this, but our trailer has been playing in
front of Juno in a number of theaters. Since Juno has turned out to be a big
indie hit about a whip-smart teen girl (who also rocks the guitar), we've been
getting a fair amount of emails from folks saying the trailer actually made
them cry! Very cool...

Also, we decided to submit our film to the ratings board (very rare for a
documentary), because it's gonna be such a great experience for kids. Though
we've heard of some strange things coming from the ratings board (we fretted
... ]]> 150653 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:49:50 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/36157/146189.html?rss=1 Sorry, the high quality trailer link was screwy...here's the correct one! High
Quality Girls Rock Trailer (http://girlsrockmovie.com/GRtrailer.mov)

Bashfully,

Arne and Shane









... ]]> 146189 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:47:18 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/36157/146175.html?rss=1 Hey Rockers,

Well, all of the many (many many many) threads that come together to make a
theatrical run happen are starting to twine themselves into something
resembling a sturdy, usable rope. The movie doesn't even open for 3 1/2 months,
but it seems to have already begun. Preparing press packets, making new
posters, having theatrical trailer done, doing film prints and all the other
stuff really gives you a feeling that this is really going to happen!

Speaking of that, we have a new trailer that's going to show in actual
theaters! But you can check it out here before anyone else...

Click here for the higher resolution but slower download (highly recommended if
you have a good internet connection):

... ]]> 146175 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:02:57 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/36157/143899.html?rss=1 Lotsa good stuff happening, lotsa work and more festivals...Firstly, the best
news of all:

We're now booked in seven cities for our opening on March 7! Many of these are
very prestigious, and we're a little overwhelmed at how many theaters are
coming on board...If you don't live in one of these locations, don't worry,
we're rolling out everywhere eventually! If you'd like to increase the chances
of Girls Rock! coming to your town, put your zip code in the screening request
box (there's a map image on it) at www.girlsrockmovie.com. This is just our
opening roster:

New York - Angelika Film Center (http://angelikafilmcenter.com/)

Los Angeles - NuArt Theatre (http://www.landmarktheaters.com/Market/LosAngeles/
NuartTheatre.htm)
... ]]> 143899 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:13:46 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/137550.html?rss=1 Hello Girls Rock fans!

Well, this has been a very news-full and exciting month! We're starting to put
the pieces in place for the big theatrical opening, which is now locked in at
March 7. We've already booked some of the theaters, and it looks like New York,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland will be the cities for our
opening weekend. In the meantime, you can see Girls Rock! at these fine
festivals, many of which have just been added:

Nevada City Film Festival (http://www.nevadacityfilmfestival.com/), California
- August 16-19 (we'll be there!)
Sound Unseen (http://www.soundunseen.com), Minneapolis, Minnesota - August
22-26
Milwaukee International Film Festival (http://www.milwaukeefilmfest.org/),
Wisconsin - September 20-30
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... ]]> 134534 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:18:03 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/132549.html?rss=1 Well, from the sold out screenings to the amazing concert the girls put on to
the awesome reviews, it was an amazing weekend at the Seattle International
Film Festival. Aside from a couple projection glitches which probably aged us a
few years, things went about as well as you could hope for. And event the
projection problems gave us a chance to get in front of the audience and do a
"Women in Rock" trivia contest where we gave away a bunch of shirts, and that
was lots of fun. It almost seemed like people were a little disappointed when
that was over and they had to watch the movie!

Whenever you make a movie, there's lots of obstacles to finding an audience and
ultimately success of any sort. Getting funding, finishing the movie, finding a
distributor, finding out if audiences like your movie, getting audiences to see
your movie--all of these pieces have to fall into place. We finally feel, after
the successful runs at Hot Docs and Seattle that we might actually have made a
good movie that some people will like, and that might have at least a tiny
... ]]> 132549 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:36:14 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/129999.html?rss=1 Hello rockers,

A quick update on Seattle Film Festival...We've now got links where you can go
to buy tickets, which you should definitely do if you're in the Seattle area!
All of it is very likely to sell out, lots of people coming up from Portland
and I think a large portion of the tickets will go to Shane's family alone!

Here's the link to buy advance tickets to the Girls Rock Fest! (http://
www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=
184545)

And for buying tix to the movie! (http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/
detail.aspx?id=23146&FID=32)

Also, here's the final lineup for the Girls Rock Fest III, which is now also
... ]]> 129999 Sat, 12 May 2007 03:08:13 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/129046.html?rss=1 Wow, what a week! After all this waiting and wondering and editing and fretting
and nervousness, our World Premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto was a wonderful
success! The audiences really responded well, and we got nothing but good
reviews (http://www.girlsrockmovie.com/story/2007/4/22/125956/274). People
coming up to us on the street and thanking us, that sort of thing. Was really
great to finally sit down with a large group of people who didn't know us or
the camp or anything, and watch them laugh and gasp and whoop at the film. One
of the coolest things was how much of the audience for our first screening were
mothers (and dads) and their 8-13 year old daughters. We've been consistently
surprised at how much younger girls in the 7-9 year old range enjoy the movie
in our smaller screenings, and seeing the family crowd show up was very
gratifying.

If you'd like to feel like you were there, you can check out our Q&A here (as
well as a nice review!) (http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/04/21/
... ]]> 129046 Tue, 01 May 2007 05:46:11 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/126439.html?rss=1 I can't believe we actually get to say that! We finally are being allowed to
announce to the world that we've been "acquired" or "picked up" for domestic
theatrical distribution by Shadow Distribution!!! (http://
www.shadowdistribution.com) They're a very cool company, and were the only
distributors that we targeted. In our first conference call with them, before
talking about money or anything else they asked if they could show it to an
organization down the street from them called Hardy Girls, Healthy Bodies.
(http://hardygirlshealthywomen.org) So amazing and wonderful to not have to
argue with your distributor about how important it is not to exploit the girls
in the movie.

Now, a lot of you are probably saying "Hunh? What's a distributor?" I know that
is the case, because we get this all the time from folks not in the movie biz.
We say "Hey, we got a distributor!" And they just look kinda bored and say,
"Really? Cool." I think lotsa folks think that when you make a movie, you just
... ]]> 126439 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 06:06:08 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/125105.html?rss=1 Hello Rockers!

Jeez, have we been busy! Getting ready for our World Premiere has turned into a
doozy...Oh yeah, we weren't able to tell y'all about that before. It's going to
be at Hot Docs Film Festival (www.hotdocs.ca (http://www.hotdocs.ca)) in
Toronto. We're really psyched about it, it's the biggest documentary film
festival in North America, and one of the two or three biggest in the world.
[195180_GRp]There's gonna be industry folks from all over the world there, even
Finland (Shane's people...he's excited)! Even more scary/exciting though,
they're hosting a special daytime high school screening of the film. We're of
course thrilled that a theater full of teens will be seeing the film, but we
also remember what it was like to go on those theater or symphony field trips
when we were in high school, when you basically laughed at everything or slept
through the whole thing. Hopefully, we'll at least keep them from rioting!
This'll be our first big test of whether folks the age of some of the girls in
... ]]> 125105 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:04:05 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/36157/120218.html?rss=1 Hello Girls Rockians!

Sorry it's been a little longer than usual for our monthly updates, but I
figure those of you who've been burning for updates have been going to our
website, http://www.girlsrockmovie.com and keeping up with our blog and the
girls' blogs. Nonetheless, there're a few fun things to tell!

Firstly, we have recently been accepted into a couple really big film festivals
that aren't Sundance. We're not allowed to tell yet until the festivals have
their own press conferences, but I'll just say at least for a couple of'em
we'll need our passports! And at our big U.S. premiere, there's gonna be a
concert/event with girls rocking out after or before the screening! There sure
are a lot of exclamation points in this newsletter!!!

Nextly, we have finished a new trailer and also a poster as we get prepared for
... ]]> 120218 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:15:05 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/36157/114722.html?rss=1 So, some good news and some, well, not as good news to report this
month...first with the exciting news.

As we mentioned in our last newsletter, we've been working on revamping our
website, and the completely new version is now live! The new site is an
interactive community blog for folks in the Girls Rock! community to speak
their minds about issues/music/news that effects girls. Or, if you want, you
can just have a blog on the site and talk about your life, or your band, or
whatever you like! You can still access the old site and see the trailer and
stuff, but from now on y'all will also be www.girlsrockmovie.com (http://
www.girlsrockmovie.com)

Folks who signup for accounts at the site will be required to submit two
stories and have them both approved to become full-fledged members, but we're
inviting folks like you who're already following the film to have full accounts
... ]]> 114722 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:25:09 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/36157/111567.html?rss=1 Hey Folks,

Hope all are well...we're finishing up the film (still!) and now moving into
the overwhelming work of getting into festivals and figuring out what to do
with the movie. It's a lot of work, but also pretty exciting. Everytime we send
off a dvd to a festival, there's a little thrill of possibility opening up.
Especially when sending it overseas to a place like the Berlin Film Festival,
or Bangkok or Bermuda. We start imagining to ourselves how a girl in Thailand
or Germany or Brazil will react to Amelia's "untuned guitar solos" or Laura
belting out "a woman, can rock as hard as any man!" Or how about Missouri? We
really look forward to introducing folks all over the planet to all the amazing
girls and women of the camp, but it's also a little scary!

A couple bits of news...first of all, we're completely revamping our website,
and this new version will probably go live by mid-late-November. We're really
... ]]> 111567 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:26:06 MSK http://archives.zinester.com/36157/107548.html?rss=1 Hello Girls Rockers!

There's not a ton to tell you about on the filmmaking front...we're still
tweaking and tidying, while doing test screenings here and there. We're feeling
good, and just waiting to hear from Sundance, Slamdance, and some other
festivals. It's still stunning to us how you work 14 hours a day, feel like a
crazed chicken running around and then suddenly you sit around waiting.

The real reason we're sending this out now, is to congratulate and celebrate
the Madrid Fashion Show's decision not to allow models on the catwalk who fall
below what's considered by the World Health Organization to be a health Body
Mass. In other words, they're banning ultra-thin models, and for the stated
purpose of protecting the body image of young girls. While this kind of
sweeping rule has engendered complaints of bias against naturally skinny women,
the move has had a huge impact in how this issue is discussed. Read below for
... ]]> 107548 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:59:13 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/103448.html?rss=1 Hello Girls Rockians,

Well, we have pretty exciting news...believe it or not, we're actually done
with the movie! We have some fine-tuning to do, as well as getting our sound
mixed by the amazing Lora Hirschberg, and getting the visuals ready for
exhibition, but we're mostly done with our part. We've submitted to a few
festivals, and are now waiting to hear from them.

The next stage is to prepare for our festival premiere. This is always a big
deal, and you kind of have to wait to do much until you hear back from them, as
the premiere is a prized possession in festival-land. Sundance, especially,
looms like a giant bird over the proceedings. We won't find out from them till
November or December, so we're in a bit of a holding pattern. But once they say
"Yea" or "Nay", there will be a frenetic jump into action, including
fundraising for the festival showing.
... ]]> 103448 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:33:10 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/98016.html?rss=1 Well, this latest update comes on a sad day for those of us who love women who
rock. Sleater Kinney has announced that they'll be taking an indefinite hiatus.
Now, we wouldn't be bothering you with news you'll probably be getting soon (if
you're big fans like me, you probably already know) except that Sleater Kinney
has been a major inspiration to this film, both spiritually and actually. Not
everyone knows this story, but we originally found out about the camp because
Carrie Brownstein was speaking at an event with the artist Yoshitomo Nara, and
someone in the audience asked her if she thought rock music was dead. After a
smile that belied the thorniness of the question, she launched into a
description of the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls that made my hair stand on end.
She had just come from teaching at the camp (along with the rest of Sleater
Kinney) and said that not only was music not dead, but that she had seen some
of the most adventurous music of her life up there. There was something in how
she talked about it that made me realize something special and potentially
revolutionary was happening in Portland. We contacted the camp a week or two
... ]]> 98016 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:31:16 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/94547.html?rss=1 Sorry, that image attached isn't of the current logo...not sure how that
magically appeared there! Be sure to go to the web store, at http://
www.girlsrockmovie.com/store.html to see the real deal! Arne and Shane Girls
Rock Productions











... ]]> 94547 Tue, 30 May 2006 02:10:14 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/94533.html?rss=1 Hello all you "Girls Rock!" fans, Lots of good news to report, but first things
first...Amazingly, because of the invaluable work of our new Associate
Producer, Jenn Dorn, we've managed in the midst of all this activity to get
T-SHIRTS and other clothing (http://www.girlsrockmovie.com/store.html) made,
and launch a web store!!!! (http://www.girlsrockmovie.com/store.html) You can
choose from hoodies, girlie tees, regular t-shirts and other styles and
colors--all with our super-rad logo that was designed by Josh Berger and the
Plazm crew. (http://www.plazm.com) So, you can support the film, and wear nice
clothes at the same time! Otherwise, things are going fabulously here at the
documentary HQ (it's a lot like a bat cave, only there are guitars instead of
weapons). We recently showed a rough cut of the movie to some folks who had
kids, and we got a great reaction. Some really valuable critiques and some
surprisingly positive comments from kids who were younger than those we
expected to like the movie. A great example is the 7 year old girl whose one
criticism of the movie was that it was too short, that she didn't want it to
... ]]> 94533 Mon, 29 May 2006 23:29:12 MSD http://archives.zinester.com/36157/90573.html?rss=1 Hello all you Girls Rock rockers!

Thing are going just fabulously here at Girls Rock HQ (it's not unlike the
batcave), as we tumble downhill toward our final cut. There's lots of good
news, so I'll stop boring you with the preamble.

Firstly, our Girls Rock Fest was a mind-boggling success. We sold out Bottom of
the Hill...twice! People just kept streaming in all day, and a couple hunderd
of those folks were girls, running around trying all the instruments and
everything. Our new Associate Producer (formerly intern) Jenn Dorn put together
a short video from footage that Beth Pielert and a crew of girls who came to
the concert shot that tells the tale better than I can. Check it out at:
http://www.girlsrockmovie.com/GirlsRockFest.mov

Special thanks to Jenn, Sara, Marisa, Raul, Sarah, Dana, Samantha, Beth, Tammi,
... ]]> 90573 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:30:05 MSD