NEWS

THE GENDERCATOR is now being distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Coop. For festival and educational screenings please contact Larissa Fan bookings@cfmdc.org.

For DVD sales or personal appearances, please contact Catherine here.

Thank you for your continued interest in the Gendercator and all the ideas and discussions fostered by the film. We have several new links on the press page including an interview with Catherine in the Winter 2008-2009 issue of SINISTER WISDOM by Robyn Epstein.

FOUR SHORT FILMS ABOUT GENDER including Vanilla Lament, One Small Step, Pretty Ladies and The Gendercator can now be seen or downloaded pay-per-view in Europe, Asia & Russia on www.Glimz.net.

FALL 2009

BUTTERY TOP a new comedy short co-directed by Catherine and Kelly Hayes has been accepted by 22 films festivals as of Sept 2009.

MACUMBA MACABRE, an educational documentary about Afro-Brazilian spirit healing in Rio de Janiero Catherine has shot and edited for professor Kelly Hayes, will be released in 2010 as a companion DVD with Hayes' book HOLY HARLOTS, to be published by the University of California at Berkeley press.

Film Details

The Taste of Dirt (2002)

Digi-beta, 12 minutes
Synopsis

Taste of DirtIt's 1970. Lisa, the 7-year-old gifted-child of an Afrocentric mother, is having a hard time fitting in at an all-white school. After an altercation, Lisa's mother decides to transfer her to the neighborhood school. The powerful lessons Lisa learned on the playground of her first school help her to make a difficult choice as she tries to fit in at the neighborhood school.

The Taste of Dirt explores issues of race and class as experienced by African American girls through double-dutch and other activities on the school playground.

Film Credits
  • Director: Yvonne Welbon
  • Producers: P. David Ebersole
  • Carol Ann Shine
  • Writer: Catherine Crouch
Principle Cast
  • DaShawn Barnes as Lisa
  • Yolonda Ross as Mommy
  • Marissa Stovall as Joanne
Contact

Yvonne Welbon, Director
7855A South Shore Drive, Suite 2E
Chicago, Illinois 60649
Tel: 773.221.2575
Fax: 773.221.2580
ywelbon@sistersincinema.com