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Not Bad for a Girl is a rockumentary on women musicians of the 90's from the indie rock music genre grunge

Grunge

Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...

and Riot Grrrl

Riot grrrl

Riot grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement based in Washington, DC, Olympia, Washington, Portland, Oregon, and the greater Pacific Northwest which existed in the early to mid-1990s, and it is often associated with third-wave feminism...

and celebrates madness, creativity, and gender play. Tina Silvey was the executive producer. Silvey Co. producing MTV music videos for most of the well known indie grunge/indie bands including: Nirvana

Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...

, Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...

, Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...

, Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, Soundgarden

Soundgarden

Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...

, Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...

, Mudhoney

Mudhoney

Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band. Formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1988 following the demise of Green River, Mudhoney's members are vocalist and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters. Original bassist Matt Lukin left the...

, Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots

Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....

, The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...

, Liquid Jesus, Concrete Blonde

Concrete Blonde

Concrete Blonde is an alternative rock band based in the United States. They were initially active from 1982 to 1995, and again from 2001 to 2004, and once again in 2010.-Biography:...

, and The Replacements. Not Bad for a Girl was written, directed, produced and shot by rock phenomenologist feminist Lisa Rose Apramian

Lisa Rose Apramian

Lisa Rose Apramian is an American author and director. She is most known for the documentary she directed, Not Bad for a Girl, which was co-produced by Kyle C. Kyle, former drummer for Venus and the Razorblades and the Motels, and Courtney Love...

, edited, shot and co-produced by Kyle C. Kyle, drummer for Venus and the Razorblades

Venus and the Razorblades

Venus and the Razorblades were a short-lived New Wave rock band from Los Angeles, puttogether by Kim Fowley after he severed professional relations with The Runaways. Fowley...

, the Motels

The Motels

The Motels are a New Wave music band from the Los Angeles area best known for "Only the Lonely" and "Suddenly Last Summer", each of which peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and 1983, respectively. Their song "Total Control" reached #4 on the Australian charts in 1980...

, Wafflebutt, and the Wild Stares and co-produced by Courtney Love

Courtney Love

Courtney Michelle Love is an American rock musician. Love is the lead vocalist, lyricist, and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989, and is an actress who has moved from bit parts in Alex Cox films to significant and acclaimed roles in The People vs...

and Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...

. It has never been officially released to home video due to music licensing issues but it did find its way to the underground "bootleg" market in 1995 on VHS. A DVD, with a booklet, is available for purchase at the official website and a release date for the sequel book is in the works. Awarded Best Documentary at the New York Underground Film Festival

New York Underground Film Festival

Founded in 1994 by filmmakers Todd Phillips and Andrew Gurland, the New York Underground Film Festival was an annual event that occurred each March at Anthology Film Archives in New York City from 1994 through 2008...

1996, Nominated: Best Director, 19th Atlanta Film and Video Festival 1995.

The bands featured in the film were Hole

Hole (band)

Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...

, L7

L7 (band)

L7 was an American rock band from Los Angeles, that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.-History:...

, Lunachicks

Lunachicks

Lunachicks were an all-women punk rock band from New York City. The band formed in 1987 and has been on hiatus since 2000. Their music was described as "a frenzied mix of punk, metal, pop and rock". The band claimed influences including The Ramones, Kiss, and the MC5.- Biography :Theo Kogan, Gina...

, Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland (band)

Babes in Toyland was an American alternative rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987. The band was formed by Oregon native Kat Bjelland , with Lori Barbero and Michelle Leon , who was later replaced by Maureen Herman in 1992...

, Joan Jett

Joan Jett

Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...

, Calamity Jane, Bulimia Banquet

Bulimia Banquet

Bulimia Banquet was a punk band from Hollywood, California, USA, who formed in 1986 and consisted of Ingrid Baumgart, Alan Hansford, Jula Bell, and Jason Greenwood...

, The Mudwimin, Silverfish

Silverfish (band)

Silverfish were a UK-based indie rock band, which formed in the late 1980s, and first performed in Camden in 1988. The band split up in 1993....

, 7 Year Bitch

7 Year Bitch

7 Year Bitch was an American punk rock band from Seattle, Washington that was active for 7 years, between 1990 and 1997. Their career yielded three albums, and was impacted by the deaths of their guitarist Stefanie Sargent and close-friend Mia Zapata of fellow Seattle punks The Gits.-Career:7 Year...

, Bratmobile

Bratmobile

Bratmobile was an American punk band. Bratmobile was a first-generation "riot grrrl" band, which grew from the Pacific Northwest and Washington, DC underground...

, Bikini Kill

Bikini Kill

Bikini Kill was an American punk rock band formed in Olympia, Washington in October 1990. The group consisted of vocalist and songwriter Kathleen Hanna, guitarist Billy Karren, bassist Kathi Wilcox, and drummer Tobi Vail. The band is widely considered to be the pioneer of the riot grrrl movement,...

. Courtney Love

Courtney Love

and Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...

provided funding for the film.

Cara-Beth Burnside

Cara-Beth Burnside

Cara-Beth Burnside, nicknamed "CB", is a pioneer of women's professional skateboarding and snowboarding from Orange, California and ranks amongst the top female athletes in these sports in the world...

is also featured on the beginning and end titles. At that time she was the best female ramp skate boarder and snow boarder in the world.

The documentary features in-depth interviews with every band member, including Donita Sparks

Donita Sparks

Donita Sparks is a vocalist, guitarist and song-writer in Los Angeles, California. In addition to performing with her most recent band Donita Sparks and The Stellar Moments, she is also the co-founder, along with Suzi Gardner, of grunge band L7...

and Jennifer Finch

Jennifer Finch

Jennifer Finch , born August 5, 1966, is an American photographer and musician, notable for her involvement in the all-female punk rock group L7.-Music:...

from L7

-Music and culture:* Square , from the thumbs and forefingers of two hands forming the shape "L7"* Bustin' Out of L Seven, an album by Rick James* L7 , a grunge/punk band from Los Angeles, California* L-Seven, post-punk band from Detroit, Michigan...

, Courtney Love

Courtney Love

from Hole

Hole (band)

, Kat Bjelland

Kat Bjelland

Katherine "Kat" Bjelland is an American musician who is currently the lead singer-guitarist of the band Katastrophy Wife, and is the former lead singer and guitarist of the punk rock band Babes in Toyland....

from Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland

Babes in Toyland may refer to:* Babes in Toyland , an American punk rock band* Babes in Toyland , a 1903 operetta by Victor Herbert* Babes in Toyland , a musical comedy starring Laurel and Hardy...

, and Becky Wreck from the Lunachicks

Lunachicks

along with clips from live performances from 1989-1994. It also features female rock communities including Riot Grrrl

Riot grrrl

and the first annual Riot Grrl Convention, Rock 'n' Roll High School of Melbourne Australia, and the Feminist Majority Foundation

Feminist Majority Foundation

The Feminist Majority Foundation is a non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to Women's Equality, Reproductive Health and Non-Violence, headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia. The name Feminist Majority comes from a 1986 Newsweek/Gallup public opinion poll in which 56 percent...

Screenings

The film was screened at film festivals, including the following:

First Annual Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Directors Guild of America and Raleigh Studios, Los Angeles, CA, April, 1995

22nd Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, May 1995

19th Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Nominated: Best Director, Atlanta GA, June 1995

Le Nouveau Festival, now called Festival du Nouveau Cinema

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma was known as the Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media until 2004. Founded in 1971, by Claude Chamberlan and Dimitri Eipides, it is an annual independent film festival held in Montreal and features independent films from around the world...

, International Cinema Video, Montreal, Quebec, CA
June 1995

44th Melbourne International Film Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

The Melbourne International Film Festival is an acclaimed annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1951, making it one of the oldest in the World....

, Melbourne, Australia, June 1995
42nd Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, June 1995

5th Jump Cut International Film Festival, Perth, Australia, July 1995

Festival Internacional de Cinema, Lisboa, Portugal, Aug-September 1995

Hamburg International Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany September 1995

31st Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago International Film Festival

The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America....

, Chicago, Il, October 1995

Musik-Film Fest: International Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
October 1995

Sinking Creek Film Festival (Nashville Film Festival

Nashville Film Festival

The Nashville Film Festival , held annually in Nashville, Tennessee, is the oldest running film festival in the South and one of the oldest in the United States. In 2009, Nashville Film Festival received close to 2000 submissions from 86 countries, programmed nearly 260 films and had an attendance...

)
November 1995

Third Annual New York Underground Film Festival

New York Underground Film Festival

, New York Film Academy, Winner: Best Documentary Feature, March 1996

18th Créteil International Women's Film Festival

Créteil International Women's Film Festival

The Créteil International Women's Film Festival is an annual event in Créteil, Paris, France founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed. The first festival was held in 1979 in Sceaux...

: Films des Femmes, Créteil, France, March 1996

21st Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...

, Berlin, Germany, March 1996

Reel Music Film Festival, Northwest Film Center

Northwest Film Center

The Northwest Film Center is a regional media arts resource and service organization based in Portland, Oregon, United States that was founded to encourage the study, appreciation, and utilization of film...

, Portland, OR April 1996

4th Annual Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema, Brattle Theatre

Brattle Theatre

The Brattle Theatre is a repertory movie theater located in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States of America. The theatre is a small movie house with one screen. It is one of the few remaining movie theaters, if not the only one, that use a rear-projection system; the...

, Cambridge, MA April/May 1996

One Reel Film Festival, Bumbershoot

Bumbershoot

Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington. One of North America's largest such festivals, it takes place every Labor Day weekend at the 74-acre Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair. Seattle Center includes indoor theaters,...

, Seattle WA, August 1996

Underground Film Festival, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Honolulu Academy of Arts

The Honolulu Academy of Arts is an art museum in Honolulu in the state of Hawaii. Since its founding in 1922 by Anna Rice Cooke and opening April 8, 1927, its collections have grown to over 40,000 works of art.-Description:...

, Honolulu, HI, November 1996

Third Sheffield International Documentary Festival

Sheffield International Documentary Festival

The Sheffield Doc/Fest, short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival , is an annual documentary and digital media event that is held in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England at the Showroom Workstation and other venues around Sheffield...

, Sheffield, UK 1996

German Film Institute Festival, Berlin, Germany, January 1997

20th Anniversary International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Gay Pride Week, San Francisco, CA June 1997
In addition to these festivals, it was also screened at the following universities, museums and conferences:

Hallwalls

Hallwalls

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center is a non-profit organization in Buffalo, N.Y. that showcases artists of diverse backgrounds in film, video, literature, music, performance, media and visual arts. Since its inception, Hallwalls has been dedicated to promoting artists from multiple backgrounds and...

Contemporary Arts Center, Women in Film Series, Tribute to Ginger Rogers, Buffalo, NY, Winter 1993 (screened as a work-in-progress)

University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...

Film Society, University Film Center, Fall 1994

Boston University

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

, Film Dept, Boston, MA, Fall 1995

Portland Art Museum

Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...

, Rock Documentaries, Portland, OR, Winter 1996

21st Annual Feminist Psychology Conference, Association for Women in Psychology

Association for Women in Psychology

The Association for Women in Psychology is a not-for-profit scientific and educational organization committed to encouraging feminist psychological research, theory, and activism. AWP was founded in 1969 at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association...

, Oregon, Winter 1996

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University, often referred to as Bowling Green or BGSU, is a public, coeducational research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry Bill, which also established Kent State...

, Women’s Studies, Bowling Green, OH, February 1996

Washington State University

Washington State University

Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...

, American Studies, “American Movement Cultures: Boundaries, Bodies, Borders,” Pullman, WA, Spring 1996

University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, Women’s Studies, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 1996

University of Southern California

University of Southern California

, Dept of Communication: Popular Culture, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 1996

Madison University

Madison University

Madison University is a non-accredited distance learning college located in Gulfport, Mississippi. The state of Mississippi considers Madison an "unapproved" college. Madison is also listed as an unaccredited and/or substandard institution by four other U.S. states...

, Women’s Studies, Gulfport, MS, Spring 1996

University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

, Women’s Studies, Seattle, WA, 1997

Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, Women’s Studies, Cambridge, MA, November 1997

Long Beach Museum of Art

Long Beach Museum of Art

The Long Beach Museum of Art is a museum located on Ocean Boulevard in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California. The museum occupies the historic 1912 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house and a new two-story pavilion, and includes oceanfront gardens. The museum is open...

, Long Beach, CA, February 1999
Its art house and theatrical screenings include:

ED VIC MOVIE HOUSE, San Francisco, CA, August, 1996

FILMHOUSE, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1996

DEUTSCHE INSTITUTE FUR FILMKIND, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 1996

NUART THEATER, Los Angeles, CA, October 18–24, 1996

CINEMA DU PARC, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 1–14, 1996

CINEMA VILLAGE, New York, NY, November 22–29, 1996

NEIGHBORHOOD FILM SOCIETY, Philadelphia, PA, December 11–13, 1996

WINNIPEG FILM GROUP, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, December 11–14, 1996

CINEMATEQUE, Cleveland, OH, January 18–19, 1997

BRATTLE THEATER, Cambridge, MA, February 4, 1997

CINEFEST FILM THEATRE, Cambridge, MA, February 18–19, 1997

BRATTLE THEATRE, Cambridge, MA Return Engagement, March 11, 1997

ROXIE THEATER, San Francisco, CA, April 1–3, 1997

LARK THEATER, Larkspur, CA, April 4–5, 1997

WORMWOOD’S THEATRE, Halifax, NS, Canada, April 11–14, 1997

ROXIE THEATER, San Francisco, CA Return Engagement, April 18–25. 1997

External links

Official site
Not Bad For A Girl trailer on YouTube
YouTube
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http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808741002/cast
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/134665/Not-Bad-for-a-Girl/overview
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:134665
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/04/01/DD29245.DTL
http://www.filmreference.com/film/58/Courtney-Love.html
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/120596/article025.shtml

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