An Epic Worldwide Documentary
& Roller Derby Adventure

Demolition Derby: Cynthia Lopez & Juvie Hall at TEDxConcordiaUPortland

On March 23, we had the very great honor of speaking at the 2013 TEDx event at Concordia University.

Sizzle Reel

Voila! Our super duper sizzle reel for Flat Track Around the World.

Mexico Teaser

Oh, what adventures we had as we made our way through Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Tijuana! What adventures…

Promotional Trailer

Juvie Hall, team co-captain of the Guns N Rollers, is setting off to travel the globe in search of the very soul of roller derby, seeking to discover the source of derby’s power to help women transform their lives.

Interview with Scald Eagle

Check out this short sample of our interview with the soon-to-be iconic derby player, Scald Eagle (aka Hillary Buscovick), a super-star jammer and co-captain of the Guns N Rollers.

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An Epic Journey into the Soul of Derby

Flat Track Around the World is a feature-length documentary following Juvie Hall as she searches for the soul of women’s flat track roller derby. In her first few years of playing roller derby, Juvie Hall, from Portland, Oregon, found herself growing and changing—both physically and emotionally—in ways she never could have imagined. The strength, confidence, and community she gained from women’s roller derby empowered her to completely transform her life and find her passion and voice. Now she wants to know whether and how roller derby can do the same for women worldwide.

With filmmaker Cynthia Lopez documenting the journey, Juvie will travel to and skate with women’s roller derby leagues in nine countries around the world: Mexico, Peru, Brazil, France, Norway, Israel, Russia, Singapore, and Australia. This diverse itinerary includes wealthy countries, poor countries, countries with highly populated urban areas, countries with mostly rural communities, countries with numerous and well-established roller derby leagues, and countries where roller derby is new or isolated.

The goal of the documentary is three-fold:

  1. to explore whether roller derby is a universally transformational experience for the women who play it, regardless of cultural or socio-economic differences;
  2. to discover how women around the world are harnessing the power of roller derby to change their own lives and communities; and
  3. to spread the love of roller derby and encourage more women to tap into its transformational power.
 
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Apr 2013 20

Flat Track Around the World TEDx Video: Demolition Derby

Posted in Project Blog, Videos
Cynthia & Juvie at TEDx

On March 23, 2013, we had the very great honor of speaking at the 2013 TEDx event at Concordia University. The theme of the event was “velocity,” which is a measurement of an object’s speed and direction. We definitely had lots to say about how roller derby can affect the speed and direction of a [...]

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Mar 2013 28

TEDx Talk = Great Success!

Posted in In the News, Project Blog
Cynthia & Juvie at TEDx

Once upon a time, in TEDx land… We finally gave our TEDx talk last Saturday, after months and months of preparation. What a crazy roller coaster adventure. In trying to craft just the right talk we pulled our hair out, drank too much coffee, laughed, cried, flipped tables, and lost lots of sleep. We enlisted friends, acquaintances [...]

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Feb 2013 14

Postcards from Dreamland, Episode 4: Medicine Man

Posted in Project Blog

What is Postcards from Dreamland? Postcards from Dreamland is a collection of dreams (from Juvie, Cynthia, or anyone else) related to our epic quest. Episode 4: Medicine Man The other night I dreamt that Juvie and I were making our film in a foreign land, a place like Tahiti that is warm and surrounded by [...]

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Jan 2013 08

TEDx talk? Us? Why, of course!

Posted in In the News, Project Blog

We are very happy and honored to announce that we’ll be giving a TEDx talk about Flat Track Around the World, journeys, magic, myth, transformation, and maybe a little Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Join us at Concordia University Portland on March 23rd, 2013 to hear our musings and receive untold inspiration from the other 19 [...]

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Oct 2012 29

Postcards from Dreamland, Episode 3: Truck Race in the Mega Church

Posted in Project Blog

Postcards from Dreamland is a collection of dreams (from Juvie, Cynthia, or anyone else) related to our epic quest.

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Oct 2012 26

Sizzle Reel!

Posted in Project Blog, Videos
Sizzle Reel

Voila! Our super duper sizzle reel for Flat Track Around the World. Many thanks to Theresa Pridemore and Juvie Hall for bringing the force with them as we created this crazy thing. And special thanks to all of the derby players that we interviewed from the Tijuana Rollerderbygirls, Liga Roller Derby DF, Disasters MXRD, and Roller Derby Guadalajara for their extreme awesomeness.

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Oct 2012 18

I know we just met, but…can I meet your grandma?

Posted in Project Blog
Juvie skating in the streets of Mexico City

Filming for a month in Mexico was a weird experience. I’m still not sure what to think of it, or how to process it. I’ve been in a strange state of apathy/malaise ever since we returned to the states. It’s a lot of work to be “on” for that amount of time. I did not [...]

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Sep 2012 27

Postcards from Dreamland, Episode 2: The dream of Theresa Pridemore

Posted in Project Blog

Art Director Theresa Pridemore dreams about Flat Track Around the World and shares it for our blog topic, “Postcards from Dreamland”.

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Sep 2012 25

Postcards from Dreamland, Episode 1

Posted in Project Blog

Analysis: Bruce Willis is awesome. Bruce Willis and his dreamtime kids like us. Therefore…

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Aug 2012 27

Mexico Teaser Video

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Tijuana_view

In summer 2012, the documentary crew of Flat Track Around the World visited Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Tijuana. And had an adventure of huge proportions.

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