SYNOPSIS
Sometime in the 1960s, in sunny Sacramento, two Filipina-American sisters got together with other teenage girls to play music. Little did they know their garage band would morph into the legendary and ferocious rock group Fanny, one of the very first all-women bands to sign with a major record label. Yet, despite releasing 5 critically-acclaimed albums over 5 years, touring with famed bands from SLADE to CHICAGO and amassing a dedicated fan base of music legends including David Bowie, Fanny's groundbreaking impact in music was written out of history…until now, with the feature-length documentary, FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK.
From director Bobbi Jo Hart (REBELS ON POINTE), FANNY:– THE RIGHT TO ROCK, winner of the Rogers Audience Choice Award at Hot Docs, charts the group’s formation, their rise, fall, and more recent reformation 50 years after their founding with a new album release, and covers the misogyny, bigotry and other roadblocks they faced along the way. Featuring incredible archival footage of the band's rocking past intercut with its next chapter releasing a new LP today, the film includes interviews with a large cadre of music icons, including Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundgren, The Runaways' Cherie Currie, Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, The B52's Kate Pierson, Charles Neville and David Bowie guitarist and bassist Earl Slick and Gail Ann Dorsey. Fighting early barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, and now ageism, the incredible women of Fanny are ready to claim their hallowed place in the halls of rock 'n' roll fame.
**DIRECTOR BOBBI JO HART AND FANNY BAND MEMBERS JUNE MILLINGTON, JEAN MILLINGTON,
ALICE DE BUHR, BRIE DARLING AND PATTI QUATRO
ARE ALL AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW**
FOR FANNY ASSETS, GO HERE
IN THEATER PLAYDATES
New York Quad Cinemas May 27, 2022
Los Angeles, CA The Landmark Westwood June 3, 2022
Irvine, CA Regal Westpark 8 June 3, 2022
Nashville Belcourt Theatre June 6, 2022
Atlanta Regal UA Tara Cinemas 4 June 10, 2022
Albuquerque Regal High Ridge 8 June 10, 2022
Portland, OR Regal Fox Tower Stadium 10 June 10, 2022
Knoxville, TN Regal Downtown West 8 June 10, 2022
Austin, TX Regal Arbor 8 June 10, 2022
Vancouver, WA The Kiggins Theatre June 10, 2022
FANNY (2021)
Written & Directed by: Bobbi Jo Hart
Interviews: FANNY (June Millington, Jean Millington, Alice de Buhr,
Brie Darling, Patti Quatro), Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundgren, Cherie Currie, John Sebastian, Kate Pierson, Charles Neville,
Earl Slick, Gail Ann Dorsey
Produced by: Bobbi Jo Hart, Rob Hart
Executive Produced by: Catherine Bainbridge, Katherine Buck, Ina Fichman, Randy Lennox, Anne Pick, Glen Salzman
Cinematography by: Claire Sanford, Samuel Trudelle-Gendron, Naomi Ture
Editing by: Catherine Legault
Genre: Documentary/Music
RT: 96 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.85: 1
Sound: 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
Screening links and DVDs available; to request, please contact:
Michael Krause
Foundry Communications