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The Girl With The Rivet Gun

Animation • 15m

Directed by Anne de Mare, Kirsten Kelly • Documentary • 2021 • 15 minutes

Built entirely by women filmmakers, THE GIRL WITH THE RIVET GUN is an unconventional animated documentary short based on the adventures of three real-life 'Rosie the Riveters' - Esther Horne, Susan Taylor King and Mildred Crow Sargent. From vastly different backgrounds, these three women came of age in an America united by war but struggling with divisions of gender, economics and race.

THE GIRL WITH THE RIVET GUN serves as an entry point into a rich, layered, and adventurous rewriting of history as herstory, inspiring conversations about working women everywhere and taking viewers beyond the iconic 'We Can Do It' poster girl to the millions of real-life women who shook the foundations of the American workplace - forever changing not only their own lives, but the very perception of what women can do.

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