FILM: Interview with Director Dana Flor on Ani DiFranco Film
Season 2, Episode 192, Oct 24, 04:04 PM
(10/24/2025) Nanette Wiser interviewed journalist/film director Dana Flor on the new Ani DiFranco Film, cinematic musical road trip through the life this groundbreaking feminist icon and punk-rock legend. The film is showing at Green Light Cinema October 25 and October 30. 1-800-ON-HER-OWN follows groundbreaking indie musician/feminist Ani DiFranco, founder of the first “woman-run non-corporate queer-happy” label, Righteous Babe Records, on a wild road trip from her punk-folk past to her life today as an activist and rock star. Throughout, Ani remains resolutely true to herself, no matter the cost.
DANA FLOR is a documentary director, producer, and writer based in Washington D.C. Flor co-directed and produced the film Check It, a feature-length documentary about a black gay street gang in DC, which premiered at Tribeca, as well as The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, a feature-length documentary about the notorious mayor, which appeared on HBO. She also wrote and directed the Emmy award-winning documentary Latinos in Beisbol and the Emmy-nominated documentary Cesar Chavez for NBC.
She began her career as a news reporter and producer, working on a wide range of stories for Reuters Television, CNN, BBC, National Geographic, and others, covering breaking news in Latin America and around the world. Flor is a recipient of a Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund Grant, the DC Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, a Pare Lorenz Fund Grant, and a AFI Docs/NBC Universal Impact Grant. She also won an Influence Film Award from the Tribeca Documentary Fund.
ANI DiFRANCO Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds. Her collaborators have included everyone from Utah Phillips to legendary R&B saxophonist Maceo Parker to Prince. Her most recent album is the June 2023 25th Anniversary Edition reissue of her seminal album Little Plastic Castle on Righteous Babe Records. Her memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019, and her debut children’s book The Knowing is out now. DiFranco is currently starring on Broadway as ‘Persephone’ in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, Hadestown. Her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t is set to be released May 17, 2024, and a second children’s book Show Up and Vote will be released August 27th.
ON TOUR Ani will launch a new tour in January 2025, with stops in Orlando and downtown St. Pete March 9 at Jannus Landing.
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DANA FLOR is a documentary director, producer, and writer based in Washington D.C. Flor co-directed and produced the film Check It, a feature-length documentary about a black gay street gang in DC, which premiered at Tribeca, as well as The Nine Lives of Marion Barry, a feature-length documentary about the notorious mayor, which appeared on HBO. She also wrote and directed the Emmy award-winning documentary Latinos in Beisbol and the Emmy-nominated documentary Cesar Chavez for NBC.
She began her career as a news reporter and producer, working on a wide range of stories for Reuters Television, CNN, BBC, National Geographic, and others, covering breaking news in Latin America and around the world. Flor is a recipient of a Tribeca Film Institute Documentary Fund Grant, the DC Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship, a Pare Lorenz Fund Grant, and a AFI Docs/NBC Universal Impact Grant. She also won an Influence Film Award from the Tribeca Documentary Fund.
ANI DiFRANCO Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani DiFranco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds. Her collaborators have included everyone from Utah Phillips to legendary R&B saxophonist Maceo Parker to Prince. Her most recent album is the June 2023 25th Anniversary Edition reissue of her seminal album Little Plastic Castle on Righteous Babe Records. Her memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream was a New York Times Top 10 best seller in 2019, and her debut children’s book The Knowing is out now. DiFranco is currently starring on Broadway as ‘Persephone’ in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Musical, Hadestown. Her 23rd album Unprecedented Sh!t is set to be released May 17, 2024, and a second children’s book Show Up and Vote will be released August 27th.
ON TOUR Ani will launch a new tour in January 2025, with stops in Orlando and downtown St. Pete March 9 at Jannus Landing.
#danaflor #anidifranco #1800onherown #greenlightcinema #punkrock #musicaldocumentary #hobbyfilms #righteousbaberecords #music #womenrock #feministicon #lgbtq+ #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #nanettewiser #NJnovdec2024