Sundance 2014 - The Old Stripper, Indiegogo and Crowdfunding

Opal Dockery, THE OLD STRIPPER

This week at the 2014 Slamdance Film Festival 

My feature documentary THE OLD STRIPPER is going to be shot this year.

This week we were at the Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Every time Jack and I are there it is a job. For the last 8 years, either a film of ours has played at Slamdance, or we are there with a project.

This year, it is my passion project.

This week, we partnered with Indiegogo to have a crowdfunding campaign for our inspirational documentary feature film The Old Stripper. Indiegogo was also at Sundance 2014 this week, so we partnered with Indiegogo to launch the new production campaign for The Old Stripper documentary to coincide with Sundance.

The new crowdfunding page is really neat and cool. Jack, my son and director of the film, did a great job putting the trailer of the movie on the Indiegogo Old Stripper site, great old pictures from my old burlesque dancing days, and more:

We have a lot to do. Jack and I spent all week at Sundance and Slamdance in Park City letting the independent film industry know about our new documentary film. Now, we have a lot of work to do before we start shooting the movie this Spring.

I want to make this film to bring to the public a way of life unimagined. 

As my contribution to society, it is my desire to share my memories with others regarding my quite unique past life which is very entertaining and interesting.

An unknown era. 

I was a burlesque stripper for over 20 years in the 1960's and 70's. As a 68 year old senior citizen, it gives me great joy to remember these days. They are quite unique, entertaining and interesting. It is my desire as a contribution to society to share these memories with others.  

This documentary is about a 68 year old woman's memories of her life and her children's lives while being a burlesque stripper for over 20 years as she takes a road trip to the various states she danced in the 1960's and '70's.

In this film, I want to take about 2 to 3 months to travel across the country to several cities I danced in back in the 60's and 70's. I want to go to the burlesque theater locations to see if they are still standing, and if not, what is in their place. I also want to interview people who remember the theater there and possible former customers.

This documentary will be very interesting as it brings to life this lost era.

But equally important and a big theme I want to weave into this film will be the human element of strippers. I want to show where strippers are human too. So many in our society think of us as saturations of sex. Dancing is just a job to strippers. Like any other job. That I know and have known - nothing more.

My son, award winning independent filmmaker Jack Truman, is also the director of the film. He was raised as a child in that environment starting when he was 6 years old. So a big part of the film will be from a viewpoint angle of Jack's as a filmmaker in a Michael Moore style of filmmaking.

There will be interviews with my children as to their views on this type of life, and their feelings of being raised this way.

This film will be shot in a very personal way with the road trip, interviews with family, friends, strippers, celebrities who worked and grew up in that era, and people who remember that time. Everything combined will make for a great story of a unique documentary that only I can make.