(Filmmaker in person)

Pleasant Gehman transited from the heady times of the L.A. punk scene and its un-traditions to take up the ur-traditions of bellydancing and become Princess Farhana. Supreme adept in the performance of Oriental Dance, always an enthusiastic and encouraging teacher, this adventurous woman is now putting moves on terpsichorean territory where no other bellydancer has gone before and, in a manner of speaking, pulls it off. We are ecstatic to have two local bellydancing troupes, Trillium Tribe and Rock Rose, present with us at this screening. We are casting runes in the hope that Princess Farhana will also be able to join us.

(2007, 90 min.) – G.R.