May - 2016

League brings home a Canadian Screen Award!

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League of Exotique Dancers wins Best Editing at History Film Festival in Croatia

Greg Klymkiw's Film Corner's Top 2016 Films

League of Exotique Dancers Canadian TV premiere February 19, 2017 on documentary Channel during free

League of Exotique Dancers best feature film at Fish and Chips Film Festival

Hot Docs film festival arrives in Sydney with the premiere of The League of Exotique Dancers - The D

LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS - HOT DOCS 2016 Review By Greg Klymkiw

Hot Docs: League of Exotique Dancers - Broken Pencil

Hot Docs 2016 Review: League of Exotique Dancers - Toronto Film Scene

LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS - HOT DOCS 2016 Review By Greg Klymkiw

Rau trains cinematographer Iris Ng's expert lens upon a group of exotic burlesque dancers who are not only still with us, but are on the precipice of their induction into the Burlesque Hall of Fame, which will include more than the mere ceremony, but full-on burlesque shows by a number of these great ladies. READ MORE

Hot Docs: League of Exotique Dancers - Broken Pencil

While the Hot Docs crowd was hooting and hollering during this heartfelt exploration of burlesque’s queens of yore, I definitely cried like a little baby (in between my hooting and hollering) at how profoundly badass the women in this movie are. READ MORE

Hot Docs 2016 Review: League of Exotique Dancers - Toronto Film Scene

Once a seductive art, the allure of burlesque has greatly diminished since the ’70s, leaving some of the greatest performers of the genre displaced and forgotten. League of Exotique Dancers brings these performers back into the spotlight in a candid exploration of sexuality, performance art, and life on the stage as these ladies prepare for their Legends of Burlesque Hall of Fame performances. READ MORE

Film on aging burlesque dancers opens Hot Docs fest in Toronto - Vancouver Sun

TORONTO - The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival kicks off Thursday with a look at aging burlesque dancers in Las Vegas. "League of Exotique Dancers" by Toronto director Rama Rau profiles eight women who are members of the Burlesque Hall of Fame and still perform onstage. The oldest of the women is 86. The Canadian Press spoke with Rau about the doc, which is the festival's opening-night film. READ MORE

“League of Exotique Dancers” is a sexy film for bold women - Women's Post

“Power is sexy, confidence is sexy. When you have the years behind you, you’ve been hated, you’ve been loved, you’ve loved, you’ve lost, I think all that comes up to a summation of power. I think at a certain age, women really don’t give a shit and that’s sexy,” said Rama Rau, director of the Hot Doc film League of Exotique Dancers. READ MORE

Their bodies, themselves: Provocative new doc showcases real beauty of yesteryear's burlesque le

It's so seldom that aging women are depicted as sensual beings. Typically, they're tucked away out of sight of popular culture. READ MORE

10 to watch at Hot Docs festival - Toronto Sun

The funny and touching film is set at the Burlesque Hall Of Fame weekend in Las Vegas, and profiles the veterans of Burlesque from the ’50s-’70s — with names like Lovey Goldmine, Holiday O’Hara and Kitten Natividad (of Russ Meyer film fame). READ MORE

Burlesque documentary kicking off Toronto's Hot Docs film fest - CTV News

A Canadian-made documentary exploring the golden age of burlesque is promising to kick-off Toronto's Hot Docs Film Festival next month with "fun and feathers." WATCH HERE

DOXA 2016 review: The League of Exotique Dancers - The Georgia Straight

“Feminism was about not trading your soul and your pussy for a wedding ring.” That’s one of the many fine bon mots we hear from Judith Stein—the Grand Beaver of Canadian Burlesque, Nelson resident, power senior—in this breathlessly entertaining visit with some of the legends of bump and grind. READ MORE

The Apology and League of Exotique Dancers: Memoirs of women whose lives were bound by male sexual d

"In these films the anonymous men who took their pleasure are all long gone and what emerges powerfully is the insistence of these aging women that they are free and that they are themselves. " READ HERE

Review: Burlesque Beat

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