It makes me proud to have a daughter...

Check out PBS on April 1. The network's long-running documentary series Independent Lens is showing a new film by Augusta's own Matthew Buzzell. Mr. Buzzell, who also directed Tell Me Do You Miss Me about the rock band Luna and Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew, about the under-apprecitaed jazz singer Little Jimmy Scott.

His new movie is Companeras, about an all-female mariachi band that defied traditional gender and made the traditional Mexican music co-ed. It's a beautiful film, filled with incredible music and portraits of women making music not for money or fame, but for the love of making music. It's an amazing movie that I plan on screening for my own daughter in the hopes that she'll be enthused and moved to create. This one gets my highest recommendation. Check it out.