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Film: Review: Girls Rock!

Well-intentioned documentary follows girls at Rock & Roll camp

May 14, 2008 at 2:06 pm

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(Photo: Nicole Weingart)

Stand back: Palace gets righteous.

Opening to the urgent sounds of Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl," Girls Rock! wants to be an incisive call for action against a culture that seems to value surface over substance. Or at least that's what Girls Rock, a Portland, Ore.-based Rock & Roll camp for girls ages 8-18, wants to instill in its young attendees.

Co-directors Shane King and Arne Johnson's documentary melds handheld footage of the camp