FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CALIFORNIA
AND CANADA TO HOST SCREENINGS OF THE OLD STRIPPER
Award-Winning
Burlesque Documentary to Screen Sunday and Wednesday
Lamar,
Missouri – The world is opening their eyes to THE OLD STRIPPER.
And it comes to California and Canada this week.
The
2018 Golden State Film Festival will host the West Coast premiere of
the award-winning underground feature film documentary THE OLD
STRIPPER on Sunday, August 12th
at the Sepulveda Screening Room in Los Angeles. And Wednesday, August
15th,
the film has it's Canadian premiere at the 2018 Regina Film Festival.
The film, made by the real-life Mother/Son filmmaking team Jack
Truman and Opal Dockery, is an epic documentary film about a
burlesque legend who travels across the country, coast to coast,
visting her old dancing cities of yesterday.
Dockery
was a burlesque dancer for over 20 years in the 1970's and '80's.
Truman, her son, and director of the film, grew up on the road with
her during her burlesque circuit.
“This
film is very personal to me”, Truman stated in press materials.
“The burlesque industry is a lost era. I grew up in that
environment, in the adult entertainment business. As a child, I was
raised around nudity and pornography. And as a filmmaker, I want to
open people's eyes to a world they know nothing about”.
Dockery
states “I was a stripper for 22 years. It was a different time. I
have been wanting to return to the cities I danced in for a long
time. I wanted to find other dancers from that time for us to share
our stories, and meet the new dancers of today to see how the times
have changed and also if they are the same”.
Over
last summer, Truman and Dockery traveled coast to coast, to all 48
states and the District of Columbia, on an epic journey shooting
footage in every state nationwide, interviewing dancers young and
old, visiting Opal's old dancing cities from her burlesque circuit,
seeing landmarks around the country, and interviewing people in the
burlesque industry.
“This
is a story only we can tell”, says Truman.
Earlier
this summer, Dockery was inducted in the Burlesque Hall of Fame in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Last month, at the World Premiere in Des Moines,
the film took home top film honors at the Interrobang Film Festival.
THE
OLD STRIPPER is scheduled to play the worldwide film festival circuit
this summer and fall.
ABOUT
DIXIE FILMS
Director
Jack Truman is an award-winning filmmaker and 30 year veteran of
stage and film. A former professor at Texas A&M University,
Truman has also appeared in several television series and major
motion pictures. His film directorial debut, the award-winning hit
cult short film PHONE SEX GRANDMA premiered at the 2006 Slamdance
Film Festival. Combined, Truman's films have screened at over 400
film festivals worldwide to date. Jack was recently on the Short Film
Jury at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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