Goddess of Slide

LIVE Q&A WITH FILMMAKER ALFONSO MAIORANA

Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine, a feature documentary by Sundance award-winning director Alfonso Maiorana (Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World), is a story of courage, survival and justice for women in music. Goddess of Slide is a personal and heartfelt story that follows groundbreaking slide-guitarist Ellen McIlwaine’s relentless pursuit to claim her rightful place in music history.

A rebel trailblazer in the world of blues and rock, Ellen was one of the first women to choose the slide guitar as her instrument of choice, even when everyone around her suggested otherwise. She would lose out on lucrative record contracts and management, all because she refused to conform to what managers and music producers believed an up-and-coming artist should look and sound like.