About this project

Bring Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers to your city!

Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers, the local independent documentary about Portland’s Roller Derby league, the Rose City Rollers, is launching a 20-city wide theatrical release but to reach this goal we need of funds to provide all the materials.

By backing Brutal Beauty you will help us with the following:

Create high-resolution graphics
Promotional material of the documentary (posters, press releases, screeners)
Materials for each theatrical venue (20 Blu-Rays and 50 DVDs)
Travel and expenses for showings
Fed Ex and postage expenses

This is a once in a lifetime experience for an independently financed documentary.

In January 2010, Brutal Beauty, a Film Action Oregon project partner, premiered to a sold-out showing at the historic Hollywood Theater in Portland, Or. The documentary is an embedded look at the 2009 Rose City Rollers season. The crew was allowed unlimited access to the Rose City Rollers during practice, bouts, on the road and away from derby over the course of the year. The cast features over a dozen characters from derby including athletes, managers, fans and retired players. The film covers the regular season of Portland derby and then follows the Wheels of Justice (RCR travel All-Star team) cross-country as they attempt to qualify for the WFTDA (Women’s Flat Track Derby Association) Derby National Championships in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Since it's release, Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers has been awarded top honors at the Crossroads Film Festival (www.crossroadsfilmfestival.com) and the Indie Spirit Film Festival (www.indiespiritfilmfestival.org). The documentary was awarded the Programmers’ Choice Award at the Crossroads Film Festival and the Festival Director’s Choice Award at the Indie Spirit Film Festival this April. Both awards were best of show honors and were selected from nearly two-hundred combined films in all categories.

For more information on Brutal Beauty check out www.brutalbeautymovie.com. Or click on our links of reviews and videos below.

Theatrical trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

"Forget Drew Barrymore's recent foray into roller derby: Chip Mabry's Brutal Beauty gives an honest shot of girl-powered adrenaline in his documentary on Portland's own Rose City Rollers."
-Willamette Week:
http://wweek.com/movietimes/...

"Brutal Beauty contextualizes the sport of roller derby and explores how participating in a full-contact sport can challenge our notions of traditional femininity."
-Bitch Magazine:
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/brutal-beauty-bringing-real-roller-derby-to-the-big-screen

"This is my favorite of all the (derby) films... Mabry cleverly juxtaposes skater action with the movement of pastries in what is both the funniest and easiest to follow rules explanation caught on film... All in all, it's an excellent film."
-The Independent Magazine:
http://www.independent-magazine.org/magazine/2010/06/steven_lafond%27s_roller_derby_documentary_picks_hell_on_wheels_to_hugs_and_bruises

Brutal Beauty Selected for PBS Video on Demand (VOD) package.

Indiewire:
http://www.indiewire.com/article/

Television Broadcast:
http://www.televisionbroadcast.com/article/103122

I See My Path Blog:
Http://i-see-my-path.blogspot.com/2010/04/brutal-beauty.html

Eugene Weekly:
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2010/04/08/movie3.html

Video links –

Doughnut sequence:
http://www.vimeo.com/11401798

KGW Interview:
http://www.kgw.com/thesquare/Brutal-Beauty-The-Rose-City-Rollers-on-the-big-screen-91566504.html

Boy Eats Drum Machine music video ABQ
Music video of music from the movie:
http://vimeo.com/9623967