Virtual Q&A for the film Calendar Girl

In honor of the exhibition Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, Salem Film Fest and PEM present this virtual Q&A with director/producer/cinematographer Christian D. Brunn. Brunn's 2021 film Calendar Girl is a documentary focused on iconic Fashion Calendar creator and Haverhill native Ruth Finley. Joining him is writer/producer Natalie Nudell, associate producer/Fashion Calendar employee Mary Myers Hackley, and PEM’s own Petra Slinkard, the Nancy B. Putnam Curator for Fashion and Textiles. Finley, a diminutive dynamo of immense determination, has been the queen of the fashion industry since the 1930s. As a young mother, she created the iconic pink Fashion Calendar, a publication that continues to organize and marshal American fashion today. Featuring Bill Cunningham, Carolina Herrera, Nicole Miller, Diane von Furstenberg and more, this joyous profile is a love letter to fashion and the extraordinary life of one remarkable woman.