''Brazen Hussies'' is a 2020 Australian documentary recording the history of the

Women's Liberation Movement The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great ...

in Australia from 1965 to 1975. Following screenings at both the Brisbane International Film Festival and the

Adelaide Film Festival The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF, formerly ADLFF) is film festival usually held for two weeks in mid-October in cinemas in Adelaide, South Australia. Originally presented biennially in March from 2003, since 2013 AFF has been held in October ...

, ''Brazen Hussies'' was released publicly on 7 November 2020. ''Brazen Hussies'' was nominated for the best documentary award at the

10th AACTA Awards The 10th Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (generally known as the AACTA Awards) is an award's ceremony to celebrate the best of Australian films and television of 2020. The main ceremony was held at The Star in Sydney and ...

. It is Catherine Dwyer's first film as director and Sue Maslin was executive producer. In a review in ''The Guardian'', Kath Kenny wrote: "Dwyer has uncovered terrific archival footage and photos to complement contemporary interviews". Sally Breen, a senior lecturer at Griffith University, writing for ''The Conversation'', says that the film is: "A celebration of how far we’ve come and a warning of just how easily everything these women fought for could be lost."

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Interview with director, Catherine Dwyer
on ABC Radio Perth 2020 films Australian documentary films 2020 documentary films 2020s Australian films