Kara Herold

Kara Herold is a filmmaker, videomaker and actress from San Francisco. Her latest video "Grrlyshow" is a film about girl zines and their makers. The video was completed in June 2000 and is being distributed by Women Make Movies.

Also in June, Kara Herold completed "Tit Chat" and "Women for Sale". "Tit Chat" is a short animation piece drawn by Ariel Bordeaux about the burden of breasts. "Tit Chat" was a finalist in the audience award segment of the Queer Short Movie Awards on Planetout.com.

"Women for Sale" is an experimental found-footage collage visually interpreting Beth Lisick's (of the Beth Lisick ordeal) spoken word account of her teenage modeling career. "Women For Sale" recently won first place in the 23rd annual Cine-Poetry Film Festival sponsored by the National Poetry Association.

Kara Herold's other creative works include "La Signora di Tutti (Everybody's Woman)", and a fifty page essay about the filmmaker Maya Deren. She is also an actress and performed in "Fear and Misery in the Third Reich" by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Mark Nishamura in October/November in San Francisco.

Herold recently received her MFA from San Francisco State University in Cinema and plans to complete "A Gal's Guide To Good Stuff" with a grant from the Bay Area Video Coalition. (01/01)

Grrlyshow
A film by Kara Herold, 2000, 18 min., Color
An 18 minute explosion of fringe feminism and print media, The GRRLYSHOW is a powerful and rebellious message from new voices often left unheard. Fil...