Independent Producer Leaps Into the DV Age With New Documentary for PBS

MONTREAL, CANADA (Nov. 3, 2000) -- Matrox Video Products Group announced that Subway Films, an independent film and television production company based in Los Angeles, has produced Girl Gone Bad, a documentary for PBS TV, with the help of a Matrox RT2000 realtime editing platform.

"Girl Gone Bad is a documentary that takes the viewer on a wild ride through the extraordinary lives of female bikers, an amazing group of women few people know anything about," says Louis Yansen, filmmaker at Subway Films. "Dusty Switzer, a hard-core biker is our guide in the film. She is a native-born Apache, ex-felon, ex-go-go dancer, and single mother of three. Ultimately, Girl Gone Bad is a thoughtful portrayal of women who have chosen motorcycle riding as the defining aspect of their personalities. These women are strong individuals with uncompromising identities in charge of their own destinies."

"I found the Matrox RT2000, with its incredible software bundle, an easy, practical, and dependable editing platform," says Yansen. "We were very impressed with the capability of the Matrox RT2000 to import large file sizes from our deck. This was a great advantage to us in the post production process, since we had over 120 hours of DV footage to edit down to the final 57 minutes. The ability to import an hour of video tape, without the file size limit of five or ten minutes, saved us a lot of time."

The documentary Girl Gone Bad is a journey into the raunchy and uncensored world of biker women. Outriders and outlaws, club mamas, Dykes on Bikes, biker babes, weekend warriors, each character we meet along the road struggles to defy traditional stereotypes in the male-dominated, sexually charged world of motorcycling, and in the process, establishes her own uncompromising identity. Girl Gone Bad has at its documentary heart the quest to understand the true nature of freedom and the true nature of self. Filmmaker Louis Yansen, whose previous award-winning dramatic feature Misplaced was televised on American Playhouse/PBS TV and screened at many film festivals including London International Film Festival, Toronto, Seattle, Deauville, among others, teams up with Bob DeMaio, editor of 1996 Sundance Film Festival's Playboy Freedom of Expression Award winner Fear & Learning at Hoover Elementary to complete this provocative documentary.

Girl Gone Bad has been recently screened at two film festivals and is now going to be televised on PBS TV as part of INDEPENDENT LENS series featuring a mix of fiction, shorts and nonfiction film and video. "This series expands opportunities for PBS audiences to see original and provocative work in which Girl Gone Bad is a perfect fit," says Yansen.

Girl Gone Bad premieres on national television this week on PBS TV. Check your local PBS station for exact dates and times at: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/film_girl.html

About Subway Films
Subway Films is an independent film and television production company based in Los Angeles, California. Read more about Girl Gone Bad and Subway Films at: http://www.yfilms.com/index.htm

About Matrox RT2000
Matrox RT2000 is a dual-stream native DV and MPEG-2 nonlinear editing system for corporate and event video artists. Matrox Video Products Group is creator of digital video hardware and software for realtime editing, DVD authoring, and web streaming applications. For more information visit www.matrox.com/video.