theheretics

The Heretics

Year 2009
Runtime 95 mins
Language English
Alberta Premiere

14A - Advisories: Mature Subject Matter & Nudity.

THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story behind the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement for the first time in a feature film. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971, and by lucky chance, she joins a feminist art collective at the epicentre of the 1970’s art world in lower Manhattan. In this first-person account, THE HERETICS charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out. Braderman’s film focuses on the Heresies Collective as a microcosm of the larger international Women’s Movement in which thousands of small, intimate groups of women met together to consider their situation—as women in a man’s world—and to devise strategies for unlocking their potential and making their work visible.
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Countries

United States
Director
Joan Braderman
Producer
Crescent Diamond, Clara Star, Joan Braderman
Screenwriter
Joan Braderman
Cinematographer
Lily Henderson
Editor
Scott Hancock, Kathy Schermerhorn