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Volume 21 Issue 228
08.12.22
Aero to host feminist film festival this Saturday Convicted sex offender arrested on new assault charge, police seek additional victims AARON MIKAIL SMDP Intern
Get ready to travel back in time. “Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers” (1972), a film starring trans actress Holly Woodlawn, will make its Academy Film Archive preservation world premiere at the sixth annual Les Femmes Underground International Film Festival (LEFUFF) in Santa Monica this weekend. The film screening is set for Aug. 13 at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre on Montana Avenue, featuring multiple special guest appearances including the executive producer, Henry “Hank” Alpert. In addition to the feature film, a multitude of short films will also be showcased during the festival on Saturday afternoon. Documentary, animation, horror, and noirthemed shorts will feature feminist filmmakers and subversive female leads. “We believe it is our responsibility to empower new generations of young women to generate work which breaks away from society’s gendered roles,” according to the festival’s website. Edda Manriquez, the founder of LEFUFF recently described her inspiration for beginning the organization. “I realized that there weren’t too many experimental and underground film festivals geared towards showcasing exclusively feminist work … Since [our first festival], LEFUFF has traveled all throughout the Southwest, including San Diego and Arizona,” Manriquez said. With regards to the film festival this upcoming weekend, Manriquez explained why the organization chose Santa Monica. “The Aero is such a historic
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The Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) is requesting the public’s help identifying additional victims in a case the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office is building against a convicted sex offender who is suspected of sexual battery that took place in Santa Monica earlier this summer. Last Friday, SMPD officers arrested a suspect, 29-year-old Anthony Barrett of Ohio, for an alleged sexual assault that took place at 4th Street and Colorado Boulevard one month earlier. “On June 28, 2022, SMPD Officers responded [to] the area of 4th and Colorado to investigate a sexual assault in which the suspect grabbed a female’s buttocks then fled,” information provided by SMPD stated. “The suspect was later identified as Anthony Barrett
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FESTIVAL: “Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers” will be shown Saturday
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location. The space is beautiful. It was nice to have an event at a place where you feel the same energy and passion for cinema,” Manriquez said, later adding, “It felt like coming home to a place where our hearts have always been.” In the film, Woodlawn plays Eve Harrington, a small-town girl who
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moves to New York in pursuit of becoming a star. Widely considered one of the most important trans actresses during the 1970s, Woodlawn is best known for her role as the muse to Lou Reed’s 1972 rock song, “Walk on the Wild SEE FILM FESTIVAL PAGE 5
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