Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines Debuts This Saturday!!

[vancouversun.com] There's an awesome new documentary making its round in fandom: Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan. 

 

Movie poster for Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, directed by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan will unmask her new documentary Saturday, March 10 at the SXSW Film Festival.

The documentary not only looks at Wonder Woman, her cultural impact but what it meant during the 1970's to see a powerful female figure, like Wonder Woman, on TV at a time when male heroes dominated the networks (& and some could argue, still dominate the box office).

The film's director, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, remembers how watching Wonder Woman on TV made a lasting impact.

 "As a kid, nothing else was out there," she told Postmedia News. "It was incredibly inspiring. I loved the physicality of it ... being adventurous, being the centre of your own story. She was a fantasy figure that really captured my imagination. Women and girls need strong, active, powerful heroes they can relate to."

The movie includes interviews with actresses who played comic-book heroines on TV, such as Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman), as well as comic-book writers, artists, and feminists like Gloria Steinem.

 "They did not think that a woman could carry a show," Carter says in the documentary. "Well, we proved them wrong and made a lot of money for the network."