GLITCH Film Festival Ovarian Psycos + Q&A

The Ovas are a powerful group of women of colour based out of East LA. Straddling push-bikes they take to the streets en masse, wearing bandana face masks, to confront violence against women, poverty and racism. The film focuses in on Xela as she struggles to balance her urgent need to engage in community organising and her responsibilities as a mother, artist Andi and young Evie who has to push back against family fears to be allowed to join the Ovas at all.

The film captures some of the passion, conflict and joy that comes with collectively organising to turn around the injustices of this world. Consciously drawing on a long legacy of chicana, indigenous, black neighbourhood fight back, the Ovas deepen their own spiritual strength and strategise resistance. In one scene Xela tucks her daughter into bed with a cuddly toy black panther and brown jaguar.

We are honoured and excited to welcome one of the Ovas in person at GLITCH 2017!

Film is fully subtitled for deaf and hard of hearing audience members. the post-screening discussion has BSL.

Ovarian Psycos | Dirs. Joanna Sokolowski & Kate Trumbull-LaValle | 72mins| USA | 2016
UK Premiere

This film is F-rated. Films are given an F-rating if directed by women, written by women and/or present significant female characters on screen, in their own right. f-rated.org.