May 16, 2022 Image Cheri Gaulke ’75 has been keeping busy, with several of her films featured in film festivals. INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE follows "America's hairstorian," famed stylist and collector of hair artifacts Jeff Hafler, as he struggles to keep his Joshua Tree California roadside attraction afloat during a year that changes his life and the lives of his husband and son. It is a film about family, fabulousness, and folk art, a film that reminds us it’s sometimes the strong people on the margins that hold a community together. This film recently won the Audience Award at the San Luis Obispo Film Festival. Trudie Goose is going to be featured at the American Pavilion during the Cannes Film Festival. When a young girl preparing for her Bat Mitzvah, the Jewish coming-of-age ritual, befriends a Holocaust survivor elder both lives are changed forever as they journey from darkness to healing through the power of art. Adapted from the short story, TRUDIE'S GOOSE, by Maya Savin Miller. Based on the life and art of Holocaust survivor Trudie Strobel. Gloria's Call will be featured in the Venice Bienniale as a part of a conference on Leonora Carrington and Samiland. From the cafés of Paris to the mountaintops of Samiland, a scholar's life is forever changed through her friendships with the women artists of Surrealism. In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington that sparked a lifelong journey into art, ecofeminism, and shamanism. The short film, Gloria’s Call, uses art, animation, and storytelling to celebrate this wild adventure. Her delightful tale brings alive an often unseen history of women in the arts. Cannes Film Festival May 17—May 28 Cannes, France La Biennale Di Venezia April 23—November 27 Venice, Italy Learn More INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE Trudie's Goose Gloria's Call Explore more about Cheri Gaulke