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Crowdfunder launched to promote locally made film about female truckers
Just 3% of truckers are women. Lisa Melbourne, who works on the outskirts of Bristol, is one of them. She’s also a writer and author of the Truckers’ Handbook.
Bristol-based filmmaker Paula Romero came up with the idea of making a film about women in the haulage industry while doing her MA at UWE. Her short documentary Mothertruckers, which takes its rather excellent name from the ‘Lady Truckers’ Club’ founded in 2012 by Wendy Priestley, tells Lisa’s story.
“Taking place after Brexit and during the UK transport and fuel crisis, it addresses the conflict of being a female lorry driver in a male-dominated profession and explores the romantic idea of finding freedom on the road compared with the hard work and unconventional lifestyle of being a lorry driver,” runs the official synopsis. “In Mothertruckers, Lisa transports the audience into her creative world, using the truck cabin as a vehicle to combine documentary realism with fiction. Through animation and voice-over, Lisa narrates her momentum to escape from a productive system on the brink of economic collapse, evoking post-apocalyptic worlds that she imagines and writes about.”
is needed now More than ever
Filmmaker Paula Romero
With their film completed, the production team have now launched a crowdfunding campaign to secure distribution at national and international festivals. For more information about how to help Mothertruckers, and the rewards available to campaign supporters, visit the film’s crowdfunding page.
Main image: Lisa Melbourne in ‘Mothertruckers’. All images supplied by Paula Romero
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