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SYNOPSIS
#1 (200
WORDS)
Before there was Sarah Palin,
there was
Running in High Heels!
Following the last months of one young
woman’s
comically inept run for State Senate in New York’s 29th District,
Running in High Heels illustrates the controversy between what women
say they want and the contradictions of how they go and get
it. Issues of sex, money and
politics are
argued by notable women from the right and left of the American
political spectrum, ranging from conservative stalwart Phyllis Schlafly
to liberal educator Rosalind Wiseman, whose book, Queen Bees and
Wannabees, became the basis for the movie “Mean
Girls”.
With their divergent takes these women
reveal how
women can simultaneously be the majority of the population (at 52%) and
an utter minority in the worlds of wealth and
power.
This provocative documentary clearly illustrates how divided women
really are when it comes to their femininity and their ambition as it
answers the question of “How far women can go if they’re
‘Running in High Heels’?”
SYNOPSIS
#2
(100 WORDS)
Before there was Sarah Palin, there was
Running in High Heels!
Wrapped around a story of one young
woman’s
comically inept run for State Senate in New York, Running in High Heels
explores the intertwining of sex, money and politics in the lives of
everyday women and reveals the difference between what women say they
want and what they act on. When it comes to the
conflict of
femininity and ambition, find out how far women can go if they’re
‘Running in High Heels’.
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER
MARYANN BRESCHARD
MARYANN
BRESCHARD is a writer, producer and director. She
is best known for her feature documentary, Running in High Heels,
which followed the story of a political aspirant akin to Sarah Palin -
well before Sarah
Palin exploded onto the
national stage.
The film explores the behaviors and criterias women use in
both
supporting and criticizing
other women and how
those affect
their
current political and economic state. It argues that women
do
not need to rise up but to
instead wake up and free themselves from
stereotypes -- but not their femininity! Running
in High Heels premiered
in 2006
and continues to play on
college campuses across the country.
Her
book, American
Catfight: Political Wisdom for Women &
Other Thoughts Towards Feminine Statecraft for the 21st Century,
continues
the discussion of women's true will to independence, equality and power
by provoking
with humor habitual stances and conditioned thinking.
As
with Running
in High Heels,
it charms women to change their thinking and push
useless
paradigms aside by turning widely-held presumptions upside down.
Maryann was
born
in the harbor town of Port Jefferson, NY. Her fifth
great-grandfather was Louis-Francois, the Count of Achun, for
whom the
French Revolution did not work out so well. Upon
arriving
in America afterwards, the newly untitled Breschards became half of
the Breschard & Pepin Circus which is widely believed
to be
the first circus in the United States. In
1806, the
Breschard family founded the oldest theatre in America, the Walnut Street
Theatre,
which still operates today. During the venue's
early era,
the now-famous Barrymores were stagehands in the employ of the
Breschards...but as with the Revolution, things for the family went
awry... Maryann, untitled and happy to have her head, currently resides
in New
York City.
maryannbreschard.com
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