Audience Award and Best of Fest winner at multiple film festivals, this acclaimed documentary combines Janis Ian’s incredible body of music, her vast archive, and interviews with family, friends and famed collaborators to deliver an in-depth musical film, told in three acts, with the intimacy of a home movie, and set against a sweeping historical context. In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a teenage singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scores a hit ("Society's Child," 1966) about an interracial relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites controversy, and plunges her into an emotional tailspin—only to emerge from the ashes with an even bigger hit ("At Seventeen," 1975) about body shaming. For the next six decades, Janis overcame homophobia, record industry misogyny, and a life-threatening illness to produce an indelible body of work that continues to draw large audiences around the globe.

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