FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE
OLD STRIPPER ROCKS WISCONSIN
Burlesque
Festival Hosts Wisconsin Premiere of Burlesque Documentary
Lamar,
Missouri – The world is opening their eyes to THE OLD STRIPPER.
And there's no place like home.
Burlypicks
2018, an annual international burlesque festival, screened a 9 minute
short film version of the award-winning feature documentary film THE
OLD STRIPPER at it's festival in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Saturday,
August 25th. The Oshkosh screening over the weekend to
open the show was the short film's Wisconsin premiere. 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, visiting her old dancing
cities of yesterday.
Dockery
and Truman were also judges at the festival, with Opal teaching a
burlesque workshop, The Psychology of Burlesque.
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.
And in Los Angeles, the feature film recently won top film honors at
Best Feature Documentary at the Golden State Film Festival. The
feature film will have it's Las Vegas premiere September 9th
at the Silver State 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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