Brazen Hussies: making trouble with feminist history
A new documentary is being made about the history of the Women's Lib movement in Australia. Writer-director Catherine Dwyer brings expertise from working on the similarly themed US doco 'She's Beautiful When She's Angry', but says the Australian experience of second-wave feminism was quite unique.
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Blurry but not forgotten. Credit: Barbara Creed
‘You can’t make change without making trouble,’ says documentary filmmaker Catherine Dwyer about what she’s learnt from the feminist activists of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. They were the fed-up women who changed Australian society forever, and the subject of her debut film currently in production, Brazen Hussies.
Rochelle Siemienowicz is the ArtsHub Group's Education and Career Editor. She is a journalist for Screenhub and is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema. She was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates' and has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, will be published by Midnight Sun in 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk
