Play Your Gender

Play Your Gender

What Does It take For a Woman To Make It In Music?

2017•1h 17m•5.0/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.0/10(3)

Juno Award-winning musician Kinnie Starr is on a quest to find out why only 5% of music producers are women even though many of the most bankable pop stars are female. What does it take for a woman to make it in music?

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Production

Fuguists Productions, Nava Projects

Language

EN

Status

Released

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Cast

Kinnie Starr

Self

Melissa Auf der Maur

Melissa Auf der Maur

Self

Patty Schemel

Patty Schemel

Self

Sara Quin

Sara Quin

Self

Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Kreviazuk

Self

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