Girls at the Painted Bird
Shooting in August, 2023!
A group of “fallen women” in the Old West get rich quick when they discover the true gold rush – charging men for their emotional labor.
The Denim Trilogy
This series of Feminist Western shorts subverts the genre to propose a new frontier; one where cowboys hug it out, female business owners finish first, and outlaws aren’t afraid to cry. We’ve completed two short films, Standoff (2021) and Men Among Men (2020), and with your support, will shoot this third film, Girls at the Painted Bird, in August of 2023!
The California Gold rush was a violent turning point in our country’s self-image. Turning away from the ideals of democracy and education, our culture fell in love with freedom and guns. In our films, we imagine a new mythology of the American West: not as it was, but as it might have been.
“And just remember the truth. They think that they’re the miners, but really this is our gold rush. We’re the miners. They’re the gold.”
– Pearl, Girls at the Painted Bird by Savannah Reich
The Denim Trilogy 