Street Heroines Captures the Collective Voices of Female Street Artists
Some Serious Business (SSB) is pleased to announce that New Mexico native Alexandra Henry’s directorial debut, Street Heroines, will be featured as part of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival with in-person screenings at the Violet Crown Cinema on Friday, October 15th at 1:00pm, and Saturday, October 16th at 1:00pm and Saturday the 16th at 1pm, outside, at the Santa Fe Railyard. The film is produced in partnership with SSB.
Street Heroines is a feature-length documentary celebrating the courage and creativity of women who, despite their lack of recognition, have been an integral part of the graffiti and street art movement since the very beginning. Navigating a male-dominated subculture to establish artistic identities within chaotic urban landscapes, Street Heroines juxtaposes the personal experiences of three emerging Latina artists from New York City, Mexico City, and São Paulo.
Vérité storytelling is woven between interviews and punctuated by historical anecdotes from pioneering artists Lady Pink, Swoon, Nina Pandolfo, Claw Money, Lady Aiko, iconic graffiti photographer Martha Cooper, and others. Street Heroines is the first-of-its-kind documentary to capture the collective voices of female street artists from around the world, shining a light on their mission for creative expression and their endeavors to overcome sexism.
While numerous graffiti genre documentaries feature familiar names such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey, Street Heroines infiltrates masculine spaces by legitimizing women’s voices within an unquestionably important movement symbolizing far more than the sum of its parts. A bastion of female empowerment, Street Heroines envisions a world where young women and girls are encouraged early to pursue a creative path, to find their voice, and to make their mark on the world in service of gender equity, community, and social justice.
About the Director
Alexandra Henry is a multilingual emerging director with over 12 years of international experience in film and branded entertainment. Recently selected for SHOOT Magazine’s New Directors Showcase 2019 and named a finalist for the STARZ & The Wrap Women’s ‘Telling Our Stories’ film contest, she showcases her passion for art, music, and languages through photography and her on-going documentary film project ‘Street Heroines.’ She has been recognized twice as a CurateNYC Emerging Artist for her body of photographic work that explores the human experience in densely populated metropolis through architecture and graffiti. She received her B.A. in Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College and speaks Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian. Based in New York City, she was born in Alexandria, Virginia and raised near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.