Do you like "butt-kickin’ tights-wearing’ roller-skatin’"* ladies?
Then go see this movie TONIGHT @9.45pm.
Afterwards, join the sponsors of the film--Hellgate Rollergirls--at The Badlander in downtown Missoula for a rockin' good time.
"I am always attracted to true subcultures that act as a clan. Roller Derby is definitely that."
-Chip Mabry, Director
Documenting the Rose City Rollers in Portland, BRUTAL BEAUTY explores the recently revived contact sport of female Roller Derby, where two teams race around an indoor track trying to get ahead of the other using precision and teamwork, with a little shoving, grunting, jamming, blocking, pivoting and bruising along the way. Director Chip Mabry's interest in sports with an "amateur aesthetic" is what tuned him into the roller derby culture, as well as the unwavering commitment each of the these ladies has for the activity.
"All of them have full-time jobs and no income from the sport," he says, amazed at their dedication.
But along with fortitude there is also risk.
"I saw many broken tibs, fibs and ribs over the year of production. I was most surprised to see the exact level of anticipation from these women as the professional athletes I have covered."
Mabry got hooked up with the Rose City Rollers through friends he met while making a film about skateboarding and actually began the project feeling skeptical about the sport, as he thought it "more of a fad than a culture." But his opinion was soon changed once he spent hours upon hours with these brutal, yet beautiful, girls.
"These women made me a believer in a sport that I now think has a real future; they changed me more than I'd like to admit."
BRUTAL BEAUTY shows Saturday, February 12 at 9.45pm.
Party to follow at The Badlander--208 Ryman. The event is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
*Taken from the Hellgate Rollergirls' site
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