Festivals - Sundance Film Festival 2021 : Rebel hearts will have its world premiere

By Mulder, 03 january 2021

During the 1960s, a tight-knit group of progressive nuns in Hollywood discarded their habits and gleefully oversaw a radical women’s college grounded in social activism. Spearheaded by sisters Anita Caspary, Helen Kelley, and Corita Kent (also a renowned pop artist), Immaculate Heart College ensured women received degrees at an unprecedented rate and crested a tidal wave of social change that engulfed the nation. But as the nuns marched on Selma and transformed the education system, they incurred the wrath of the archbishop of Los Angeles and, with him, the church’s entrenched old guard.

With a mixture of defiance and joy, Rebel Hearts reveals one of the biggest religious showdowns of the twentieth century, which pitted a delightfully noncomforming group of feminist nuns against a powerful patriarchy insistent on female subservience. Pedro Kos’s euphoric and essential documentary reveals a groundbreaking sisterhood that not only flipped the bird—politely—at the Catholic Church’s brazen misogyny but, through their teachings, fundamentally reshaped American society.

Synopsis :
A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today.

Rebel Hearts (USA)
Directed by Pedro Kos
Produced by Kira Carstensen, Shawnee Isaac-Smith, Judy Korin
Executive Producers : Ethan Goldman, Nancy Stephens, Rick Rosenthal, Abigail E. Disney, Adrienne Becker, Christy Spitzer Thornton, Tony Hsieh, Quiet
Animation : Una Lorenzen
Animator : Brandon Blommaert
Music by Ariel Marx
Music Supervisor : Tracy McKnight
Cinematography : Clay Westervelt, Emily Topper
Edited by Erin Barnett, Yaniv Elani, Pedro Kos, Ondine Rarey
Distributed by Merman & Anchor Entertainment
Release date : January 30, 2021 (Sundance)
Running time : 99 minutes

Premiere : jan. 30 - 3:00am // Second screening : jan. 31 - 4:00pm (local time)

(Source : press release)