Janis Ian Set to Make Appearances To Support New, Award Winning Documentary Film
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Janis Ian Set to Make Appearances
To Support New, Award Winning Documentary Film
Varda Bar-Kar’s Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
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Janis Ian also joins Women’s Week In Provincetown, MA Appearances During the Event Include Holding a 2-Hour Master Class on Thursday, October 16th Tickets Available HERE
On October 14 Ian Will Receive Women’s Week’s Legacy Award At Their Annual Community Dinner
And Her “In Conversation with Janis Ian” Event With Q&A Session Will Take Place on October 17 |
What Critics Are Saying
“Janis Ian is a living, breathing trailblazer. Let’s Listen to her.”
Rolling Stone
“Before Billie Eilish, broke many ‘youngest ever’ records, before Chappell Roan became a queer icon, before Carole King brought Semitic sex appeal to the stage, before Taylor Swift’s spiteful Taylor’s Versions, before Phoebe Bridgers gave a voice to mental health issues, before Kathleen Hanna shouted about women’s issues and Tracy Chapman about race issues, there was Janis Ian.”
– SPIN
“The film uses Ian’s unusually insightful music, her memories and fresh interviews with Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Lily Tomlin, Laurie Metcalf, Jean Smart, the late Brooks Arthur and others to tell the story of her impact and importance. …Watching the film, one gets as much of a sense of America’s complicated, shifting identity over the decades as one does Ian’s own life and personal evolution.”
Billboard
“In addition to being one of the great songwriters of all-time, Ian is a captivating raconteur.”
Deadline
“The best storyteller in this documentary is the artist herself. Whether she’s singing or talking, Janis Ian is captivating. And in her 70s now, she’s still quite precocious.”
NPR’s Fresh Air
“Because its subject is who she is, Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, the film, plays out as something greater than the standard chronology of events. You can’t help but like (Ian), and to root for her, while simultaneously marveling at her sheer talent and impenetrable braveness.”
Best Classic Bands
“In the documentary, Celine Dion, Laurie Metcalf and Jean Smart all pay homage to ‘At Seventeen,’ which Ian performed on the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975.”
People Magazine
“Ian’s refusal to give up back then took no shortage of personal faith and hard-won funding, creating a template that now looks downright visionary. …We were lucky this particular singer used (her) voice so often, so well and for so long.”
PBS
In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scores a controversial hit single called “Society’s Child,” about an interracial love relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin – only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit,”At Seventeen,” ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying. Janis overcomes significant obstacles – embezzlement, record industry misogyny, homophobia, and heartbreak – to find love and produce an indelible body of searingly honest songs that earned her a devoted following and critical acclaim.
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence features Janis Ian, friends, and collaborators, including Joan Baez, Lily Tomlin, Jean Smart, Laurie Metcalf, and Arlo Guthrie.
Information on screenings available here janisiandocumentary.com/screenings
