Radical Harmonies

Radical Harmonies is a full-length documentary that chronicles the Women's Music Cultural Movement and its evolution from a "girl with guitar" to a revolution in the roles of women in music and culture. The movement gave birth to an alternative industry that changed women and music forever.

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Overview

Woodstock Meets Women's Liberation in a Film about a Movement that Exploded the Gender Barriers in Music

Through festival and performance footage, interviews, and archival material, the film delves into the rich and beautiful history of women creating a cultural life based in a commitment to diversity, personal integrity, feminism, and women loving women. In its heyday, during the 1970s and 80s, women's music offered a different message than mainstream musical culture. It opened doors for women musicians, producers, sound and light technicians, and for new women-owned recording companies and women-oriented shows. Pioneers like Cris Williamson, Margie Adam, and Linda Tillery recall the frustrations and the triumphs of finding women sound engineers and other professionals in a completely male-dominated industry.

Although several films have highlighted aspects of Women's Music, this groundbreaking documentary is the first to explore the full depth and spectrum of its history and impact. Radical Harmonies features such early stars of Women's Music as Meg Christian, Holly Near, and Mary Watkins, as well as contemporary artists Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco, Bitch and Animal, and Melissa Ferrick. Additionally, the film highlights the whole infrastructure that made possible the recording, production, and dissemination of the work of these talented performers.

Radical Harmonies movingly illustrates how the Women's Music movement changed the lives of countless women.

Format: VHS/DVD
Year: 2002
Running Time: 88 minutes

Awards

Audience Award for Best Documentary, San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, 2002
Award for OUTstanding Soundtrack, Outfest Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2003
American Musicological Society Philip Brett Award, to Boden Sandstrom, 2003

Film Credits

A Woman Vision Production

Executive Producer / Director: Dr. Dee Mosbacher
Co-Producer: Dr. Boden Sandstrum
Associate Producer: Margie Adam
Associate Director: June Millington

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Woman Vision Productions - Documentary Films Promoting Tolerance