Past Featuresd Films

Natasha (DOCUMENTARY, 13 minutes, 6 seconds)
Jen Ashlock

This short documentary follows Julia, Andrea, and Anne from “Natasha,” a local all-female band in high school. Borrowing instruments from their school, writing their own songs, and distributing their music dubbed over cheap cassette tapes from thrift stores, this do-it-yourself act became a hit act in the town of Durham, North Carolina. While completing their junior and senior years, the gals in the band publicly negotiate feminism, sexuality, and what a “girl band” really means, eventually going on to open for nationally-known punk band, The Butchies.

Filmmaker Profile:  JEN ASHLOCK

Jen Ashlock was busy pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when, by chance, she won a chance to make a free super 8 film at Chapel Hill's Flicker Film Festival. Shortly thereafter, she made 3 shorts with a Canon 518 she rescued from eBay and discovered a love of the cheap, but brilliant, super-8 film stock. Ashlock organized Flicker from 2002 to 2004 and, after passing the Flicker torch, was able to make the documentary, Natasha.