GRAFFITI VERITE’ 13 ROLLER GURL: A Complicated “Game-Time” Love Affair

Welcome to the Complex world of Contemporary Women’s Roller Derby”Today’s Roller Derby is strategic, smart, real and it hurts! This ain’t your momma’s Roller Derby!”GV13 ROLLER GURL: A Complicated ‘Game-Time’ Love AffairA new documentary film from multi award-winning filmmaker, Bob Bryan”I’ve never even been in a fight before; I was shocked at how quickly you get usedto the idea of hitting another person.”- French Connection, Long Beach Roller Derby”You need to be able to take a hit, and get back up, don’t look at the time, makesure you know what’s going on.”- Tyra Shanks, Angel City Derby Girls”Insightful and revealing, ” GV13 is a honest straight-up, no-frills, stripped-down documentary film about contemporary women who ignore societies naive programmed gender stereotypes about women’s lack of aggressiveness, physicality and strategic skill-sets.”GV13 ROLLER GURL” is probably not what people (non-derby) will expect, in aderby documentary. It is, however, at least from my experience, an excellent and dynamic portrayal of the girls behind the derby names. “Game-Time” captures the soulof derby!” – Nerd Badger (Tracie Scott), Interleague Relations, E-Ville Roller Derby League, Alberta, Australia-Member of Canadian Women’s Roller Derby AssociationIn this organized and rule-based world of Roller Derby, these women lustfully battle each other, deploying skilled defensive and offensive combative strategies that utilizes no balls whatsoever!”You see, there’s no balls in Roller Derby. What makes Roller Derby unique, is thatthe offensive scoring object is a girl with a star on the side of her helmet. Essentially,the jammer is the ball and she’s bowling thru all these players… We don’t need a ball, we’ve got a human!” – GoGo Gidget, Bench Coach and Player for Angel City Derby GirlsDerby Girls