Double Dare is an excellent funky cool inspiring documentary! It features two rocking stunt women. One was a pioneer who worked on wonder woman and is now in her sixties and the other is most well know for her several years working on Xena. I just saw Zoe Bell at the 2005 Xena con. She did brilliant work on Xena & was also Uma Thurman's double for Kill Bill! It is also very heart warming to see the support that Lucy Lawless & Quentin have given her! At the Xena Con Lucy found a few fliers for the film leftover on the stage and she threw them out to the audience encouraging everyone to see it. The DVD has just been released & has some highly recommended extras!

I had the pleasure of seeing this film at Toronto's International Film Festival in 2004. Not only was I impressed by the film, but so were the two guys I saw it with. "I'm a guy, and I feel empowered!" is what one of them said to Zoe as we scrambled after the Q&A session to get autographs. That is easiest way for me to sum up how that film made everyone I knew feel that saw it. It is a documentary that, because of it's pacing, feels like an action feature. This film was able to get across to the audience how truly important the role of a stunt double, female or otherwise, is. I would recommend this film to anyone and hope that it gets picked up soon for release onto DVD.On a side note: Thank you to all the cast and crew my friends and I met at the film festival for being so kind and gracious to a group of flustered film students. Especially Amanda Micheli for giving us posters and letting us borrow her Sharpie.

The storyline of the two stunt women in Double Dare was compelling and fun. It was well paced: up, down, sideways and all with outrageous stunts going on as a side dish. The main course here is seeing two people trying to break in, and stay in this brutal business.

DOUBLE DARE chronicles the ultimately intersecting lives of two stunt women, a graceful, aging veteran and an ingénue-like up and comer. Somehow, in a reasonable chunk of time, the filmmaker tackles the unveiling of two distinct personalities and histories. She then recontextualizes them within the two distinct eras that produced them.The older one faced challenges as a woman in a male dominated field that the younger one will probably never encounter. Yet neither the characters nor the filmmaker take the "Look at the injustice" route on this issue. The piece ends up being a solid character study with the gender politics circling cheerfully on the perimeter. The characters are aggressively likeable, and the filmmaker reveals a world that audiences rarely if ever get to see. Documentary is 90% editing, and lucky for us, because the editing is phenomenal. I can't wait to see what this filmmaker chooses to tackle next. Excellent work.