Itty Bitty Titty Committee
(Jamie Babbit, USA, 2007, 85 min)
Part social commentary, part drama and part romantic comedy, Itty Bitty Titty Committee has a blast exploring social change and coming out. When we first meet Anna, she is working at a plastic surgeon's office and generally moping her way through her days. One night when leaving work, she catches Sadie spray-painting the front of the plastic surgeon's building. Instead of calling the cops, she and Sadie find common ground and Sadie recruits Anna into her group of radical feminists. Guerilla art, street theater, happy road trips and a stand out climax make I.B.T.C. a fun romp through politics and desire. In the end, the universality of the desire to be in a posse that can change the world is what truly elevates this engaging ride through the mosh-pit of 20-something girlie-activism.  www.myspace.com/ittybittymovie     View Trailer

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FtF: Female to Femme
(Kami Chisholm and Elizabeth Stark, USA, 2007, 48 min)
A wildly original extravaganza, FtF: Female to Femme presents a saucy, indelible portrait of a people central to the gender revolution.  Part doc-, part mock-umentary (see if you can tell which is which!), FtF explores the variations of femme identity.  Interviews with famous femmes, including Guinivere Turner, Bitch and Leslie Mah (from Tribe 8) are interspersed with scenes from a parodic consciousness-raising group.  FtF asks a lot of hard questions like “Does wearing a push-up bra make one a bad feminist?”  Sub-genres such as the retro femme, fat femme, tomboy femme, punk femme, and high femme are all given their due.  FtF is a savvy, defiant documentary that’ll make you laugh, make you think and make you want to dismantle the patriarchy, while in stilettos.  www.altcinema.com/ftf.html