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Payoff

Kaylyn Thornal and Singer Kay Hanley in Person
Screening on Film
Directed by Kaylyn Thornal.
US, 1998, 16mm, color, 79 min.

Filmmaker Kaylyn Thornal follows three prominent Boston female rockers (Jen Trynin, Laurie Geltman, Juliana Nash) through several hazardous, up-and-down years in the music business. The musicians are as personable as they are talented, but that doesn’t save them from endless calamities, some of which are  still tied to the marginality of women performers in rock. Thornal expands her film to bring in other smart, brash women’s voices from the music scene, including the sardonic Jules Verdone, Fuzzy’s no-nonsense Chris Toppin, and Letters to Cleo’s brilliantly outspoken Kay Hanley. 

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    Directed by Kaylyn Thornal.
    With Kay Hanley, Jack Richards, Jaclyn Lafer.
    US, 1998, 16mm, color, 12 min.

On the eve of splitting her podunk town for fame and fortune in New York city, Dottie (Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo) encounters a suspicious billiard hustler who may change her life forever.

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