Crew
Leilah Weinraub
Director
Leilah Weinraub
Producer
PW
Pilar Wiley
Producer
Riel Roch Decter
Producer
MH
Michael Hekmat
Producer
Drake Burnette
Producer
TD
Tim Dewit
Original Music Composer
Leilah Weinraub
Director of Photography
Shakedown
201872m5.2 (15)
Documentary
‘Shakedown’ was a series of parties founded by and for African American women in Los Angeles that featured go-go dancing and strip shows for the city’s lesbian underground scene. Inspired by trans woman Mahogany who, as the mother of the scene, presided over queer strip shows and balls for non-heterosexual audiences in the 1980s, butch Ronnie Ron created, produced and presented the new shows. In them, the largely female clientele from the ‘hood’ slipped dollar notes into lap dancers’ panties while celebrating lesbian sexuality to pulsating hip-hop beats.
