Music Documentaries

October 30, 2022 • GoggleWorks Boscov Theatre • 12:00pm

DON’T PUT HER DOWN

Filmmaker: Julia Golonka 32:07 minutes This film takes its title from Hazel Dickens’ powerful anthem Don’t Put Her Down, You Helped Put Her There, and explores how she, along with her musical partner Alice Gerard, became the first women to front a bluegrass band and reflects on the role of women in bluegrass today. The film covers Hazel’s migration to Baltimore from coal country West Virginia, her activism for coal miners and working people, and the impact her upbringing had on her songwriting. Lifelong collaborators and upand-coming musicians share what it means to have bluegrass songs written from a woman’s point of view and keep Hazel’s memory alive.

ONE BUCK WON’T HURT

Filmmaker: Christopher Stoudt 15:39 minutes Drama, Coming-of-Age, Profile “One Buck Won’t Hurt” follows four Black teenagers from New Orleans supporting themselves by tap dancing for tips in the French Quarter. Following them from adolescence to adulthood, this coming-of-age story explores the reckless joys of youth and the bitter realities of growing up fast in the incarceration capital of the world.