The Denim Trilogy Film Screening

Join us for a Theatre Novi Most fundraiser and screening of The Denim Trilogy for Give to the Max Day!

The Denim Trilogy includes award-winning comedy shorts Men Among Men (2021), Standoff (2022), and The Girls at the Painted Bird (2024). Each film is under 15 minutes and the screening of the trilogy will be followed by a Q&A with Lisa Channer (TNM Co-Artistic Director and filmmaker) and creatives from the films.

Screenings will be held at 6:30pm and 8:00pm on Thursday, November 19th (Give to the Max Day!) at FilmNorth in Saint Paul. Food will be served and wine will be available for additional donation. Parking is FREE and easy in the Gold Lots (click here for more info).

Tickets available on a sliding scale donation of $35-$150 with a limited number (10) of $20 economic accessibility tickets available per screening. Tickets are available online and at the door unless sold out (50 seats per screening).

ABOUT THE TRILOGY

Created out of a collaboration on a new play about blue jeans ("DENIM") that was stopped from a full production due to Covid-19, each film in The Denim Trilogy was written by Savannah Reich, with direction from Lisa Channer and Savannah Reich. The three films were official selections in film festivals such as the Berlin International Art Film Festival, Amsterdam Short Film Festival, and Toronto International Women Film Festival, and have won several festival awards including:

The Bill Murray Comedy Shorts Award at Twin Cities Film Fest 2020 (Men Among Men), Winner of Best Comedy, Best Western, and Best Director the Cowpokes Int'l Film Festival 2023 (Standoff), and Best Ensemble Comedy Short Film at the Yale in Hollywood Fest 2024 (The Girls at the Painted Bird).

This series of Feminist Western shorts subverts the genre to propose a new frontier; one where cowboys hug it out, female business owners finish first, and outlaws aren’t afraid to cry. A new mythology of the American West is imagined: not as it was, but as it might have been.

ABOUT EACH FILM

Men Among Men (2021): A group of prospectors in gold rush California wrestle with ideas about masculinity. Part consciousness-raising group, part fight club, these cowboys are determined to figure out how they can be good men.

Standoff (2022): A Mid-Western. A standoff that does not go as expected.

The Girls at the Painted Bird (2024): A group of “fallen women” in the Old West get rich quick when they discover the true gold rush – charging men for their emotional labor.