FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE
OLD STRIPPER WINS TOP FILM HONORS IN LAS VEGAS
Burlesque
Documentary Wins Best Original Documentary at Silver State Film
Festival
Lamar,
Missouri – The world is opening their eyes to THE OLD STRIPPER.
And it just stole the show in Las Vegas.
The
2018 Silver State Film Festival gave top honors to the burlesque
documentary THE OLD STRIPPER. The festival awarded the film with the
Best Original Documentary award for the 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, visiting her old dancing
cities of yesterday.
The
Las Vegas screening at Silver State was the Las Vegas Premiere for
the feature film.
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
is very special 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. We are honored to have the
Silver State Film Festival host the Las Vegas premiere of this film.
Receiving this award is icing on the cake”.
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.
THE
OLD STRIPPER is scheduled to continue playing the film festival
circuit worldwide this fall.
THE OLD STRIPPER on Facebook:
http://facebook.com/oldtimeburlesquemovie
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