Bay Area filmmaking icon Maureen Gosling and cultural anthropologist Maxine Downs introduce us to a small group of self-empowered Malian women who with their hand-dying cloth creativity have sparked a revolution, inspired by beauty—and economic survival.
Maureen Gosling
Director/Producer/Editor Maureen Gosling has been a filmmaker since 1972, working variously as a producer, director, editor, and sound recordist. Her credits include The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane (MVFF46), This Ain’t No Mouse Music!(MVFF36, Audience Award winner), Blossoms of Fire(2000), and others.
Maxine Downs PhD
Director/Producer/Researcher Maxine Downs, PhD, is a cultural anthropologist who lived and worked in West Africa for two years and whose original doctoral research on the women cloth dyers of Mali served as inspiration for Bamako Chic: Threads of Power, Color, and Culture. This is her first film.
MAUREEN GOSLING: Director
MAXINE DOWNS: Director
