BEAUTY TRICKS a film about older women & the beauty industry
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BEAUTY TRICKS a film about older women & the beauty industry
Fed up with the oppressive ways older women are portrayed in society? Want to challenge how the beauty industry targets and impacts older women? Then the production of the short film, 'Beauty Tricks’, is for you!
I’m Leah of 'Older Women Rock!’, an art/activist campaign that raises awareness and explores issues facing women in our late-50s to mid-70s. Through message-emblazoned clothes, Subversive Catwalks, poetry and film we celebrate early-old-age women, unite across our differences and subvert society’s assumptions and prejudices about us https://www.leahthorn.com/older-women-rock
’Beauty Tricks’ is our next project, an upbeat, edgy and joyful film about the ways the beauty industry targets us as older women to 'age agelessly’. The beauty products market in the UK is projected to make £13billion pounds in 2024 and products aimed at older women are increasing fast. We are made to feel insecure about the way we look and then sold products to ‘make us feel better’. As I say in my performance poem, ‘Creamed’ -
'I refuse to let the forever-young drug
erase the handwriting of life across my face’
The film is a collaboration with MissFit Sisters, a fantastic older women’s punk band. With the skill and support of filmmaker Clare Unsworth we will create a 4 minute film, featuring a couple of my ‘Older Women Rock!’ poems, one of which has been turned into a punk song.
£2,000 will cover the film shoot, editing and production; hire of Speedway; and submission fees for film festivals.
Clare and I have a strong track record of making award-winning short poetry films, screened in international poetry, feminist and social justice film festivals and used in c events on issues of gendered ageing. I am confident that ‘Beauty Tricks’ will gain a wide audience through film festivals, social media and presentations.
I am making this film to honour my generation of women whose thinking and actions have made such decisive change. I hope we never give up our vision of the world we want and our intention to have it.
Everyone who donates to ‘Beauty Tricks’ will receive a ‘Beauty Tricks’ postcard, collectable at the world premiere screening in Folkestone on International Women’s Day 2025.
A donation of £50+ gets your name on the film credits.
A donation of £100+ gets you a postcard, your name on the credits and a ticket for the world premiere.
A donation of £500+ gets you all all of the above, plus an invitation to the shoot.
Here are links to
a] award-winning ‘Older Women Rock!: The Documentary’ by Clare and myself
b] a recent MissFit Sisters gig in Speedway, Folkestone
c] previous poetry films https://www.leahthorn.com/films
d] the work of photographer Mish Aminoff https://www.mishaminoff.com
e] the work of Allie Lee of Whitstable's Profanity Embroidery Group, who created the embroidered face featured at the top of the page
Organizer
Leah Thorn
Organizer