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'Ferry Tales'
For hundreds of commuters, it is just another routine trip from the quiet of Staten Island into the frenzy of Manhattan. Some spend the half hour traveling across New York Harbor anxiously waiting, suffering through the boat's motions and sipping their third cup of coffee while burying their heads in the newspapers. Some attempt a hopeless nap.
But not all. A few use up every precious minute of the ride preparing themselves in a very exclusive place: The Staten Island Ferry Powder Room.
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Samantha Bonar, Los Angeles Times
"a celebration of women's resilience, especially when they've got a network of female friends to catch them when they tumble."
Joshua Tanzer, Offoffoff.com
"'Ferry Tales' is a film that boldly goes where no man has gone before -- into the Staten Island ferry ladies room." More
Nancy Ramsey, The New York Times
"Sisterhood in a floating Powder Room"
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Rachel
"I think whenever you talk about something, the more you speak about it, the less power it has over you."
Irma
"It's a big mystery to most people, because they keep wondering why are all these women coming in here. It's this black hole almost, you know, they seem to go in and they don't seem to come out. And it's not that they don't come out, it's just that they come out looking like different people."
Liz
"In my mind, you know, every day is really a fairy tale. Because you wake up and you really don't know what's going to happen. So you have the opportunity every day to create a new fairy tale for your life, a new reality for yourself, a new truth for yourself."
Diana
"This is what we do in the morning. We have a cup of coffee and I used to always call us the Transformers, 'cause we walk in there lookin' like pure sh-t, and walk out lookin' like glamour girls."
Valerie
"It seems like it's a little space. But to us it's so big."
Justine
"I think it's a comfort that, you know, if ... what you say is gonna stay there within those ... that circle, within that group of people."
Kamillah
"It's in the moment. It's an in-the-moment type of thing that you can't duplicate from one day to the next. But it's addictive. It's really addictive."