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1970s rock band Fanny will be the subject of the opening film of this year’s Tucson Film & Music Festival, which takes place October 1-3 in the Screening Room.

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Arizona Daily Star

After the Tucson Film & Music Festival postponed 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this weekend, Friday October 1 through Sunday October 3, returns with a number of films to be screened in person at the Screening Room, 127 E. Congress, City Center.

Now in its 17th year, the festival is making a big comeback, according to press materials, with a focus on female filmmakers.

Films with female directors were selected as opening, centerpiece and closing films this year.

On Friday, the festival premieres “Fanny: The Right to Rock,” directed by Bobbi Jo Hart, a film about the birth of Fanny, the 1970s California rock group acclaimed and admired by women like Bonnie Raitt , Cherie Currie from The Runaways and Joe Elliott from Def Leppard.

Fanny drummer Alice de Buhr will participate in a Q&A after the screening at 7pm.

Crossing Columbus, the main film of the festival, which will be shown on Saturday at 7:30 pm, deals with the annual pilgrimage of Mexican horseback riders who travel each year to the small town of Columbus, New Mexico, to take part in Pancho Villas robbery on the city in 1916.

The director is Cathy Lee Crane, who will be at the festival for a Q&A after the screening at 7.30 p.m. with her colleague Beth Custer

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