1-800-On-Her-Own w/ Ani DiFranco & Dana Flor // CARTE BLANCHE

Name: 1-800-On-Her-Own w/ Ani DiFranco & Dana Flor // CARTE BLANCHE
Start: 2024-11-01T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Tomorrow Theater

Schedule

Fri Nov 01 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Tomorrow Theater | Portland, OR

Join us for the much-anticipated Ani DiFranco documentary, 1-800-On-Her-Own! Following the film, Ani DiFranco and director Dana Flor will be in conversation with PAM CUT Director Amy Dotson, and take audience questions.
“This could quite possibly be one of the best artist docs I’ve ever run across.”–Unseen Films, Steve Kopian
“1-800-On-Her-Own is a celebration of an artist in a league of her own. Ani DiFranco‘s relentless magic hangs in the air in my house. This film reintroduces her to the world.”–Reel News Daily, Liz Whittemore
ON SCREEN: 1-800-On-Her-Own
2024. Directed by Dana Flor. Runtime: 77 minutes.

Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica, and even more distant sounds. Her collaborators have included everyone from Utah Phillips to legendary R&B saxophonist Maceo Parker to Prince. Her memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019, and her debut children’s book The Knowing is out now. DiFranco has just completed a five-month run on Broadway as ‘Persephone’ in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, Hadestown. Her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t is out now, and a second children’s book Show Up and Vote will be released August 27th.
Ani has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including a Grammy for best album package (Evolve), the Woman of Courage Award from the National Organization for Women, the Gay/Lesbian American Music Award for Female Artist of the Year, and the Woody Guthrie Award. At the 2013 Winnipeg Folk Festival, she received their prestigious Artistic Achievement Award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Winnipeg. In 2017, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from A2IM (a nonprofit trade organization that represents independent record labels) and the Outstanding Achievement for Global Activism Award from A Global Friendship. In 2021 she was named a Champion for Justice by the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
ON STAGE: Ani DiFranco & Dana Flor
Ani DiFranco
Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds. Her collaborators have included everyone from Utah Phillips to legendary R&B saxophonist Maceo Parker to Prince. Her memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019, and her debut children’s book The Knowing is out now. DiFranco has just completed a 5-month run on Broadway as ‘Persephone’ in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, Hadestown. Her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t is out now, and a second children’s book Show Up and Vote will be released August 27th.
Ani has been the recipient of many honors and awards, including a Grammy for best album package (Evolve), the Woman of Courage Award from the National Organization for Women, the Gay/Lesbian American Music Award for Female Artist of the Year, and the Woody Guthrie Award. At the 2013 Winnipeg Folk Festival she received their prestigious Artistic Achievement Award, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Winnipeg. In 2017, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from A2IM (a nonprofit trade organization that represents independent record labels) and the Outstanding Achievement for Global Activism Award from A Global Friendship. In 2021 she was named a Champion for Justice by the National Center for Lesbian Rights.
Dana Flor
Dana Flor is a documentary director, producer, and writer based in Washington D.C. Flor co-directed and produced the film Check It, a feature length documentary about a black gay street gang in DC which premiered at Tribeca, as well as The Nine Lives Of Marion Barry, a feature-length documentary about the notorious mayor which appeared on HBO. She also wrote and directed the Emmy award-winning documentary Latinos In Beisbol and the Emmy-nominated documentary Cesar Chavez for NBC.
She began her career as a news reporter and producer, working on a wide range of stories for Reuters Television, CNN, BBC, National Geographic, and others, covering breaking news in Latin America and around the world. Flor is a recipient of a Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund Grant, the DC Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, a Pare Lorenz Fund Grant, and a AFI Docs/NBC Universal Impact Grant. She also won an Influence Film Award from the Tribeca Documentary Fund.