Tracy Flannigan
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Tracy Flannigan is an award winning independent filmmaker residing in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 who began making movies when she was seventeen years old. She has worked professionally for the last fifteen years in the film business and has created numerous short films and music videos. Her work has been screened at many film festivals throughout the United States.

Tracy’s feature length screenplay, The Late Great W.J., won a fellowship at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.

Rise Above: A Tribe 8 Documentary
Rise Above: A Tribe 8 Documentary
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary is a feature film directed and produced by Tracy Flannigan that documents the all women queercore punk band Tribe 8....

marks Tracy Flannigan’s documentary feature debut. The film was made over a five-year period in which Tracy dedicated herself to capturing the lives and performances of the all women queercore
Queercore
Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of punk. It is distinguished by being discontent with society in general and its rejection of the disapproval of the gay, bisexual, and lesbian communities and their "oppressive agenda"...

 band, Tribe 8
Tribe 8
This article is about the San Francisco based lesbian punk band Tribe 8. See Tribe 8 for Dream Pod 9s post-apocalyptic fantasy role-playing game.Tribe 8 was an all-women outspoken dyke punk band from San Francisco...

. Rise Above has screened internationally and garnered the July Award for Best Documentary at Frameline, the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and earned Ms. Flannigan the Kodak Emerging Talent Award at Outfest
Outfest
Outfest is an LGBT-oriented film showcase and festival in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1982 as the "Gay and Lesbian Media Festival and Conference", the name was changed to Outfest in 1994.-Programs:...

, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

Currently, Ms. Flannigan is in pre-production on a second feature length documentary on the experiences of poverty stricken illegal immigrants, who on a daily basis must find work outside stores like Home Depot.
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