Parachute Dream Productions

Payoff (1998)

Documentary

16mm, color, 79 min.
with Jen Trynin, Laurie Geltman, Juliana Nash

PAYOFF follows three prominent Boston women rockers (Jen Trynin, Laurie Geltman, Juliana Nash) through several hazardous, up-and-down years in the music business. The musicians are as personable as they are talented, but that doesn’t save them from endless calamities, some of which are still tied to the marginality of women performers in rock. Thornal expands her film to bring in other smart, brash women’s voices from the music scene, including the sardonic Jules Verdone, Fuzzy’s no-nonsense Chris Toppin, Letters to Cleo’s brilliantly outspoken Kay Hanley.

Directed/Produced/Edited by Kaylyn Thornal

Cinematography by David Fisher/Kaylyn Thornal

Associate Producer Rhonda Berchuck

Featuring Music by Jennifer Trynin, Laurie Geltman, Talking to Animals, Letters to Cleo, Fuzzy