Get your heads out of myspace and listen up: C.I.A. Wants You! Not that C.I.A., stupid. Welcome to
Clits In Action, an underground guerilla feminist collective devoted to bringing down the
patriarchy, one sexist bikini billboard at a time. All it takes is a can of spray paint and some “eat me” attitude. From Jamie Babbitt comes a wacky tear through the mosh-pit of 20-
something girlie-activism, with the same goofball charm as her debut feature, the smashhit
But I’m A Cheerleader! Our guide is the adorably lost baby-dyke Anna (played with
pitch-perfect wry humor by Melonie Diaz from Raising Victor Vargas), who’s moping over
a recent break-up, answering phones at a breast-implant center, and slouching through
dress fittings for her sister’s Big Straight Latino Wedding. All that changes one night,
when Anna spots Sadie, a hot blonde C.I.A. operative defacing Anna’s office with antiboob-
job graffiti. In no time, Anna’s met the rest of the gang - angsty artist Meat, smartgirl
Shulamith (Carly Pope, TV’s Popular), and proto-FTM Aggie – and they’re all out on the
streets together, raging against the Phallus. There’s nothing like activism to make a girl
horny: soon enough, Anna and Sadie are all over each other, which doesn’t sit well with
Sadie’s sugar-mama Courtney, an earnest lesbian politico (played by Thirtysomething’s Melanie Mayron!). Like the gang’s rowdy hijinks, the movie itself is a do-it-yourself gem,
and stars a who’s who of famous “clits in action” including Daniela Sea (Moira, The L
Word), Jenny Shimizu (alleged ex of Angelina) and Guinevere Turner. Itty Bitty Titty
Committee is a non-stop-fun call-to-arms for a new generation of Girl Power.
Preceded by
Struck, Dir. Susan Ali, ,U.S. 2006, video, 2 min. FLORIDA PREMIERE.
Cupid’s boozing it up on the job, so his aim is a little off. With the wildly weaving flight of
arrows, a romance destined for two luscious lesbians gives way to hilarious mayhem.
Carrer Synopsis
Jamie Babbit graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University. Her Feature films
include But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) and The Quiet (2006) Her short films includ Stuck (2001), Sleeping Beauties (1999) and Frog Crossing (1996). Babbit is also a very
accomplished and prolific television director of such shows as Ugly Betty, Alias, The L
Word, Gilmore Girls, popular, Nip / Tuck, The Bernie Mac Show and many others. Babbit is
an advisory board member of the Director’s Guild of America Independent Directors
Committee and an Honorary Board of Director for the Professional Organization of
Women in Film Reaching Up. |