Fannie's Film
Fannie Drayton, Tracy Fitz, Barbara Jabaily, Schellie Archbold (Performer), Beth Barcal (Performer), Dyne Benner Onove (Performer), Leon Bram (Performer), Alan Edwards (Performer), Judy Handy (Performer), Lise Hazen (Performer), Jaimie Cunningham (Performer), Gary Levinson (Performer), Doug Miller (Performer), Rick Mitz (Performer), John Phillips (Performer), Berthica Prieto (Performer), Maxine Sherman (Performer), Dean South (Performer), Robert Fitzgerald Studio, Women Make Movies (Firm)
In "Fannie's Film", a 65-year-old cleaning woman for a professional dancers' exercise studio performs her job while telling us in voiceover about her life, hopes, goals, and feelings. A challenge to mainstream media's ongoing stereotypes of women of color who earn their living as domestic workers, this seemingly simple documentary achieves a quiet revolution: the expressive portrait of a fully realized individual
VHS Video, English, 1979, 1981
Distributed by Women Make Movies, New York, N.Y., 1979, 1981