María Manuela
2017
Documentary film directed and edited by Emma Lanier
San Francisco Dance Film Festival Official Selection
Created with suport from the Storytellers Institute
A choreographer breaks flamenco’s gender norms to speak out against machismo, while a young filmmaker documents and reflects on intersecting questions of ownership, meaning, and resistance.
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