Courtesy of Cinema Purgatorio, a damn fine touring distributor that has rolled out some great indies over the past few years like The Flaming Lips’ Christmas on Mars, Tony Manero, I Can See You, etc. just announced today their upcoming screening dates for the new documentary “Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo”.
Directed by Bradley Beesley, longtime Flaming Lips collaborator as well as director of The Fearless Freaks and co-director of Mars, serves up a look behind prison walls as cowgirl inmates were allowed to participate in the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo.
It was the first time females were allowed to participate in this male-dominated event before finally ending in 2008. As such, the story becomes not only an odd tale of female empowerment but elegy to a system that has since passed, perhaps barbaric and exploitative but still a means of escaping the equally brutal reality of prison life.
Listed below are upcoming screenings (dates,city,theater) with more to follow:
Date City Venue
09/11/10 Montreal Blue Sunshine
09/17/10 – NYC IFC Center
09/23/10
09/17/10 Austin, TX Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz
-09/23/10
09/24/10
-09/30/10 Los Angeles, CA Downtown Independent
09/27/10 Las Cruces, NM Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility
09/28/10 Tempe, AZ Madcap Theaters
09/30/10 San Francisco, CA Red Vic Movie House
10/04/10 Bellingham, WA Pickford Cinema
10/05/10 Seattle, WA Northwest Film Forum
-10/07/10
10/07/10 Tulsa, OK University of Tulsa
10/08/10 Portland, OR Hollywood Theatre
10/08/10
-10/14/10 Denver, CO Starz Film Center
11/16/10 Columbia, MO Ragtag Cinema
11/17/10 Kansas City, MO Screenland Crossroads
