Eye for Film: Glasgow Film Festival 2023 - Looking for America: The Films of Lee Grant programme

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The Willmar 8 and What Sex Am I?

Battered (Country: US; Year: 1989; Director: Lee Grant; Stars: Lisa Bianco, Lee Grant)

An investigation of domestic violence in American homes.

Down And Out In America (Country: US; Year: 1986; Director: Lee Grant; Stars: Lee Grant, Jeff Farmer, Bob Hanson)

A recession in the mid-1980s affects Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York.

What Sex Am I? (Country: US; Year: 1985; Director: Lee Grant; Stars: Monica Lynn B, Lee Grant, Christine Jorgensen)

A documentary which follows a group of transgender individuals struggling to make their way in every strata of 1980s America.

When Women Kill (Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Lee Grant; Stars: Linda E Cherry, Lee Grant, Leslie Van Houten)

A look at the stories of women serving time in prison for murder.

The Willmar 8 (Country: US; Year: 1981; Director: Lee Grant; Stars: Glennis Andresen, Doris Boshart, Terry Caine, Sylvia Erickson)

Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, eight unassuming women begin the longest bank strike in American history.

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