Hollaback

Emilia Wieding - 2018 - United States - 10 min

Ciarra Lambert aka Queen Jo is a multi-faceted hip-hop artist from Philadelphia, who has the courage to fight for women’s rights within the same scene that degrades them on a daily basis. She shares her views and opinions through the lyrics of her music and takes the battle against unequal judgment of women.

In a very early stage of her life, she began to realize that society was treating girls differently. By the time she was in high school she started writing rap lyrics.

Even though she was rejected from a label, saying her music is not ‚suitable‘ because it was feminist rap, she never gave up spreading her word.

Hollaback shows Ciarra in her creative process combined with her activist mindset. It will follow her through the process of creating a song criticizing the way the hip-hop scene portrays women.

The screening for this film can be found in the short-film program Seahorses, Pussy-core and Queens.

Director: Emilia Wieding

Emilia Wieding started her career as a journalist at the music university in Karlsruhe, Germany. She began filming portraits of musicians and conducting interviews. Soon, she discovered her passion for documentary film but also shifted her focus to politics, human rights and women’s issues. She began studying TV journalism at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. That's when she’s started giving a voice to people who were suffering under injustice.