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Ferron: Girl on a Road

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Before the Indigo Girls and before Ani DiFranco, there was Ferron, whose plaintive and poetic songs provided the soundtrack for an entire generation of lesbians. Nearing 60 and feeling the urge to reconnect with her audience, Ferron reunites with her band to perform a concert after nearly a decade away. Director Gerry Rogers (My Left Breast) is there to capture the moment.

Ferron: Girl on a Roadopens on British Columbia´s Saturna Island, where Ferron welcomes her band mates into her home to rehearse. The action shifts to a stage in Victoria, where Ferron and the band perform some of her most adored songs-Shadows on a Dime, Girl on a Road and Snowin´ in Brooklyn. Interspersed between tunes are interviews with the band members and with Ferron herself, who talks openly about her painful childhood, her rise and fall in the music industry, her past feelings of shame regarding her Native ancestry and, finally, about coming to terms with herself after a lifetime of struggles.

WORLD PREMIERE

DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE