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Dixie Chicks film to premiere at FilmColumbia
10.11.06
[Chatham, NY – October 9, 2006] – The FilmColumbia festival of film has just added an exciting and controversial film to the festival lineup: filmmakers Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck’s new documentary, “Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing.”
Kopple, an award-winning documentary director, and Peck, a filmmaker collaborator with Kopple on two previous documentaries, have crafted a revealing behind the scenes look at the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the Dixie Chicks after band member Natalie Maines' anti-Bush remark (“We're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas”) at a London concert in 2003 created fierce backlash against the band among their hardcore country fans. The Chicks refused to back down in the face of a blitzkrieg launched by the right wing media, an assault that including country radio’s boycott, fans and stores bulldozing their CDs, and, most frighteningly, a very specific death threat to singer Natalie Maines.
Although, as band member Emily Robison says, “People don’t like mouthy women in country,” the group refused to back down and just “shut up and sing.” This intimate, sympathetic portrait follows the group through the ensuing three years of consequences of having stood up for what they believed in and chronicles the writing and recording of their hit album, “Not Ready to Make Nice.” The film contains clips of 15 of the Dixie Chicks songs and a new one written especially for it.
Bob Eisenhardt, the lead editor of the film and a resident of Malden Bridge, will be on hand to field questions.
Filmcolumbia runs Thursday, Oct. 19th through Sunday Oct. 22nd in Chatham, New York. “Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing” will be shown at 8:45 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22nd at the Crandell Theater in Chatham. Tickets for this film and all the films and events of the festival can be purchased by phone, at 518-392-3445, by order forms on the festival brochure (downloadable from the FilmColumbia website), or at the Chatham Book Store on Main Street. Tickets will also be available at the Tracy Memorial Building during the festival. Please visit www.filmcolumbia.com for further details.
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