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Topp Twins play Portland 10/06/10

The Topp Twins and Arani travelled to Portland to attend the screening of The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls at the Q Doc Film Festival . . .

Clinton Theater | Credit: Q Doc

Lynda & Jools with Russ Gage, Q Doc Co-Director, at the Savoy | Credit: Q Doc

Arani talks with David Weissman, QDoc Co-Director, at the Savoy | Credit: Q Doc

. . . then two nights later the Topp Twins played to a full house at the Mission Theater.

The Ginghams perform at the Mission Theater, Portland | Credit: Q Doc

The Ginghams perform at the Mission Theater, Portland | Credit: Z Doc

The Topp Twins perform at the Mission Theater, Portland | Credit: Q Doc

Read the lovely review written by Alley Hector at qPDX.com.

“Somehow the Topp Twins truly encompass a universal message of love, peace, and environmental activism that is refreshing and energizing. I’d elect them president and put them in charge of the BP oil spill if I could. But I’m a little smitten…”
(Topp Twins Live Review, Alley Hector, qPDX.com)

Read our review in New York Time Out 09/06/10

For those of you in New York or with friends in New York the film is screening at the Newfest Film Festival with The Topp Twins and Arani Cuthbert in attendance!

10 June 2010 | 7.30pm | SVA Theater 1 | The Topp Twins and Arani Cuthbert in attendance

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls review in Time Out

A ‘Best’ from Mendocino 08/06/10

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls has been awarded the Best Documentary Award at the Mendocino Film Festival.

Arani and the twins attended the festival and according to the Mendocino Film Festival on Twitter, “The Topp Twins were treated like the ROCKSTARS they are at the Mendocino Cafe last night! This town is so great…”

Lynda & Jools performing in Mendocino | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools perform in Mendocino | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools at the Mendocino Film Festival | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools with Ronnie Gilbert and fans of the Mendocino FIlm Festival | Credit: John Birchard

Lynda & Jools with Ronnie Gilbert | Credit: John Birchard

Best Documentary at Inside Out 02/06/10

The 20th annual Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and Video Festival wrapped up on Sunday night and honoured the best of the fest. The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls received the Elle Flanders Award for Best Documentary Film. Thank you Toronto! Again!

Watch Elvira Kurt interview the twins and Leanne Pooley in Toronto when they attended the Toronto International Film Festival last year:

Read reviews from the festival:
Inside Out 2010: Topp Twins, Movie Moxie
Review: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Toronto Film Scene, Pam Fossen
New Zealand’s singing, yodelling lesbian twins star in hit doc, The Star, Linda Barnard
Topp Twins, NOW Magazine, Glenn Sumi

Topp Twins take on Seattle 01/06/10

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls screened in Seattle on the 30 & 31 May with the twins and the film’s producer Arani Cuthbert in attendance. See the pics below for proof!

Jools, Arani & Lynda at SIFF | Photo credit: SIFF

Arani Cuthbert, the film’s producer, says, “The screening on Sunday night went down very well… about 600 people in a lovely old theatre, very much like a KIWI audience. This part of the US is so like NZ. Lovely to hear people laughing at all the right places, lots of wonderful comments afterwards.”

Watch the interview with Lynda & Jools on the SIFF website

SIFF Banner | Photo credit: Diva Films

Lynda & Jools Topp | Photo credit: SIFF

Lynda & Jools Topp perform at Q&A | Photo credit: SIFF

Jools Topp performing at Q&A | Photo credit: SIFF

SIFF audience | Photo credit: Diva Films

Lining up for merchandise | Photo credit: Diva Films

Lynda & Jools Topp signing merchandise | Photo credit: SIFF

Lynda & Jools Topp | Photo credit: SIFF

View more pics on the SIFF Flickr stream.

UPDATE: Listen to the audio from an interview with Movie Critic Tom Tangney

Read the reviews from SIFF:
May 30 at SIFF, The Seattle Times, Michael Upchurch
SIFF “Face the Music” preview: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, KEXP.org, Leigh Bezezekoff
SIFF report #2, Playback stl, Sarah Boslaugh
SIFF Review: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, film.com, Christine Champ
SIFF Sighting: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Cinebanter
SIFF Spotlight: The untouchable Topp Twins, Art by Zee
SIFF Take: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Three Imaginary Girls
SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans, Seattle Weekly, Gavin Borchert
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, The Stranger, Dominc Holden
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Seattle Gay News
What to see this week at the Seattle Film Festival, HeraldNet, Robert Horton
Your Daily SIFF: Oops! Here’s the info on Topp Twins and Joan Rivers, Seattle Gay Scene, Michael Strangeways

Topp Twins LIVE . . . in the USA 21/05/10

The Topp Twins are coming to the USA in June to attend a number of film festivals and play three live shows.

Jools and Lynda Topp along with Arani Cuthbert, their manager and producer of The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, will be attending the Seattle Film Festival, Mendocino Film Festival, Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival, Newfest Film Festival and Frameline Film Festival. See the full festival listings for when and where to see them.

The twins will be playing three live shows in Portland, Northampton and San Francisco and tickets are on sale NOW!

Finalists x 2! 12/05/10

The finalists for the RIANZ Best Country Music Album 2010 were announced last week. The good news being that The Topp Twins are one of three finalists for Honky Tonk Angel. The other two finalists are The Bads for So Alive and Tami Neilson for The Kitchen Table Sessions.

Also announced were the finalists for the APRA Best Country Song for 2010 and Jools Topp is a finalist for ‘Honk Tonk Angel’ along with Dianne Swann (The Bads) for ‘So Alive’ and  Matt Langley for ‘7:13’.

The awards will be presented on June 4 2010 at the New Zealand Country Music Awards in Gore.

Read more about the finalists here.

The Topp Twins and the APO 10/05/10

The Topps recent performance with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at the Auckland Town Hall, was filmed for television and screened on TV3 last week. For those of you who missed it you can watch it online on TV3’s TV on Demand.

Performing with a full orchestra was a challenge for a couple of gals who don’t read music or know what a bar is, but everyone had a lot of fun. The show could be called The 3 Kenors as the conductor was called Ken too!

The online video is only available to NZ viewers but the show will be available as an extended version DVD in the near future so keep an eye out.

Top at Miami 10/05/10

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls has won the Best Documentary Award at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The MGLFF jury chose the film as their favourite documentary of the 2010 lineup.

Read the article written by Steve Rothaus on the Miami Herald blog.

Leanne at River Run and . . . a WIN! 27/04/10

The River Run Film Festival organised for The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls director Leanne Pooley to attend the festival. The film had four screenings, two of which Leanne attended for Q&As and . . . today we heard that the film has won the Audience Award for Best Documentary!!!

Leanne Pooley having her photo taken by Tim Klein at the River Run Film Festival | Credit: River Run Film Festival

Leanne Pooley on the red carpet at the River Run Film Festival | Credit: River Run Film Festival

Leanne Pooley with Andrew Rodgers, the Executive Director of the River Run Film Festival | Credit: River Run Film Festival

The happy audience at the River Run Film Festival screening with Leanne | Credit: Leanne Pooley

Reviews from River Run Film Festival:

River Run Film Reviews, Winston-Salem Journal
Film Festival Offers Awesome and Awful, Matthew Lucas – The Dispatch.com