I wish this were playing near meee.

A montage of my ass dressed up in the appropriate costumes performing the works of Harold Pinter would be better than the Sex and the City movie...

Also, Dodai, is your avatar you? If so, you are truly gorgeous.

Can't watch. But anything that gives a boost of self-esteem to girls has my vote.

Actually, the one thing that makes this slightly "dreary" is that it spends more time than it should underlining the point of the camps, whereas just watching the girls do their thing makes the point of it all abundantly clear (no explanatory stats about self-esteem necessary).

Aww, they have a local program in my town for girl ages 8-13 called GirlsRock that is like this, and it's fucking awesome.

I'm shrieking like a banshee right now!
(in happiness, you know, for finally being able to comment on Jezebel... thanks guys)

Aw, shit, I'm crying. Yay for girl's rock camp.

This camp is awesome - I have friend who teach there and it's such a cool thing and really empowering for the girls. I donate money when I can and would volunteer there if I could.

i wanna be yr joey ramone

@AppleBetty: That comment is getting you banned.

:)

I seriously wish this had existed when I was 14. Can't wait to check out the movie.

WHY WHY WHY couldn't they have this when I was a kid? It would've been a complete dream come true!

A-freakin-dorable!!!!

That woman's right; there's nothing like hearing your voice with some volume. I play and sing in an acoustic viola/guitar/mandolin trio, and it's really fun, but sometimes I just want to kick over some amps and scream like a banshee into a mic. I would have LOVED to do that at 13.

@katekate: Damn, it was fun while it lasted :)

@katekate: Yeah, when are the executions happening anyhow? I wasn't here the day that was announced.

Can we see this on a Jezzie meetup?

@Wroksie: Cubicle cries happen almost daily for me, and this video helped me reach today's quota. So adorable and inspiring - I'm totally gonna choose to be powerful and to rock today!

Bloody Hell Jezebel, this has me crying. That was beautiful, and my inner outcast 12 year old wants to go to a camp like that!

@LaComtesse: Aw, shucks, thanks, it's me, but it does that squishey smushy stretchy thing that avatars do sometimes, the original pic is not as weird.

Awesome! Special love for including Le Tigre.

At the very least, these girls are learning a lot about how strong they can be. I love the one girl who said she can finally admit to how "amazing" she is. What a badass kid.

@LaComtesse: @Dodai: Agreed, lovely.

@mightymouth: I would do this now!

This looks beautiful. I just got weepy in my office. Crap. Man. Do they have this for 25-year-olds, cause i'd sign up in a heartbeat. Get on it Jezebel! Make me a Rock Camp!

i can't wait to see this tomorrow!

How come this camp didn't exist when I was 12?

And to be the downer...I know that it is just a trailer, but where are the girls of color? I see one Asian girl, but...

@ineffable.me: Throw away the dull records.

This made me cry too. I think girls need to feel good about themselves, so much out there is designed to make them feel bad.

@Moley: They do have an adult rock camp, and the proceeds benefit the rock camp for girls!

[www.williemaerockcamp.org]

Aw, man, I wanna be a counselor there SO BAD! And saying that just made me think of amy poehler in Upright Citizens Brigade... "I wanna kick ass SO BAAADDDD!!!"

We have one of these in Chicago and this movie isn't even playing here! WTF

Wow. Jealous, but so happy at the same time.

Also, there's an awesome book (with proceeds going to the camp) that'll be out soon. How to do it yourself if you can't make it to the camp! [www.amazon.ca]

Yay. I got teary too. I want to run away to camp, but have it be permanent. I'm 26.

Perma-camp would be awesome. Although it would probably get old.

@scrizzlescrazzle: It's opening at the a href="http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/comingsoon.html">Music Box tomorrow.

Can't say enough about rock camp for girls, except rock the fuck on rock camp rock out yeah!

I've loved this project since I discovered one of its offshoots on the east coast of Canada run by the most rocking feminist bitch St. John's has ever seen, who smoked joints with me at the feminist retreat and gave me dirt on Rick Mercer and Mary Walsh! This is beside the point, I know, but I glow just thinking about her and her rocker girls (who also made their own zines!)

Also Hortense - I didn't say anything yesterday but I am still laughing at Sigourney Fever.

@GeektasticallyDelicious: whoops! let's try that again Music Box

Yes there is a ladies rock camp in portland too, it happens every spring as a fundraiser for the camp. Go to www.girlsrockcamp.org for more details. And there are many girls and women of color involved with the camp, the filmmakers just chose to highlight 4 girls, only one of whom isn't white.
I have been involved with the camp since 2001, it's super inspiring, and everyone volunteers their time because they wished there had been such a thing when we were young. But I am here to testify, it's not too late for you to start rocking!

If anyone in the SF area is thinking about going, the opening showings have Q&A with the film makers and bands that the girls working at the theaters have put together.

@Dodai: Sorry about the squishy picture, but congrats on good genes!

@CorporateTool: Yeah I saw that too. I don't want to be a downer either but damnit there needs to be more girls of color in that program. Still a touching trailer though.

I'm so happy they made a movie about this! It will never play here but a two hour trip to DC when it premieres there may be in order.
Carrie Brownstein is so cool. I love that she's working with All Songs Considered.
Good songs on the preview- yay Rainer Maria!

@eedlebeedle: Where are the showings?

I got all teary watching that and then I felt silly. Thank goodness for other Jezzies mentioning that they were also teary! Now I don't feel silly I just feel happy that there are other women out there having the same response.

*incoherent happy sobbing*

Also: Sleater-Kinney! Yippee!

@CorporateTool: There was a decent girls-of-color number at the last New York one, but keep in mind that it's ROCK camp (in the PacNW) -- so far it kinda self-selects for younger white parents to send their daughters. But I get the feeling that with more publicity and outreach that'll change a little. Plus they're increasingly careful not to selll the kids a normative "you must ROCK because THAT is what makes you good" line.

These also seem to have sparked a lot of similar things for kids (girls and boys both), and a recognition that you can motivate and inspire kids just by teaching them fun stuff about their own abilities -- the sad part is that public schools have given up on being able to do that with their own art/music programs, so now it all has to get done privately like this. It's terrific what you can do, though, just by letting kids try things, whether it's playing music or building bikes or whatever.

That's cool. Le Tigre. Needs more industrial.... sigh. =(

Yep, tear-worthy material. I've been thinking about learning to play guitar, maybe I should just fucking do it and start rocking!

Do you get to write your own songs, or do you just do covers?
I mean, I'm at the age where I could go, but I think I would just feel weird. I think its cool, though, the people that do go. I'm probaly not badass enough, ha. But, yeah, that little girl was adorable.
And the fact that they used some Le Tigre and Bikini Kill made me happy.

@briardahl: It makes sense that kids who go to a (probably) expensive camp would be predominately white, but I'd love to see a camp like this for inner city girls.

Oh, Village Voice, keep on continuing to be obtuse. Can't you just die already?

I saw this at the Milwaukee International Film Festival last September and loved it. Everyone in the sold out theater cheered, laughed, cried and clapped. Vadim Rizov can suck it!!

And here is my review:
[popcorninmybra.blogspot.com]

@CorporateTool:
The camp actually offers a lot of scholarships every year. They say that no one will ever be turned away due to lack of funding. Also, though you only see her for a split second in the trailer, my boyfriend's goddaughter plays a major role in the doc. She is, as the child of a black man and a Chicana, a proud POC.

@CorporateTool: the camp is not expensive, and half the girls go for free or at a drastically reduced price. full price for one week is $300, there is massive fundraising throughout the year to make up the difference between what they charge and how much it costs to run. Almost everyone involved is a volunteer. And they make a very concerted effort to have a lot of women and girls of color, many of the campers ARE inner city kids and in the foster care system. Plus you don't have to play rock music, folk, metal, disco, techno, and hip hop are all represented. Keep in mind this movie (while awesome) is the filmmaker's vision of camp. And that it's all in the edit......

@CorporateTool: I don't think it's the expense that's the issue -- it's that the whole thing sprang up around a kind of punk/indie/DIY rock mentality that's fairly "white" in and of itself. But like I said, I think they've been really good about trying not to be at all limited in that way, so once it becomes better-known and branches out a little ...

My sister worked at the one in Portland this summer and loved it. She had no musical talent but wanted to go work with cool ladies. She ended up being the office manager type person and she loved everything about it. It was wonderful to hear all of the good stories she had and she also grew up and matured so much this summer. I'm so proud of her-she's also learning the drums now and is going back to work there this summer.

I want.

I want to see the movie.

(me: teary-eyed too.)

I want to have a daughter to send.

If I ever have a daughter, I'm sending her to a camp like this. In fact, I almost wish I were 12 again so I could go.

I too and teary-eyed. The last time a movie trailer made me cry was...never. Up yours, Village Voice. Girls rocking out is such a good idea. Don't be a groupie. Get on the stage.