Our Filmversation as featured in The Denver Post!

“Fashion is about which purse you carry, but life is about what you carry in your purse!” says award-winning filmmaker Coleen Hubbard.With that in mind, Hubbard made a movie about purses and created a unique, fun and funny event for women she calls a Filmversation, celebrating our handbags and all that they mean to us.

Her 60-minute documentary, “The Contents of Her Purse,” which premiered at The Great Lakes International Film Festival, is the first part of the aptly titled Filmversation, “The Purse Chronicles.” It recently played to sold-out audiences in Denver and has bookings in new locations in 2011. The Purse Chronicles proved itself to be a great occasion, whether for corporate use, private parties, fund-raisers, or any other conversation starter.

“The Contents of Her Purse” is an intimate and hilarious exploration of the depths of women’s handbags—and all that their contents reveal about vanity, necessity, and identity. From a five-year-old girl with her very first “toy” purse, to a 95-year-old senior whose purse holds a handicap parking sticker and denture cream, Hubbard’s film features interviews with women from every point on the female life cycle. “We have high school girls, hipster grad students, new mothers whose purses transform into diaper bags overnight, working professionals, world travelers, and everything in-between,” adds Hubbard. Curious about what men really think about women’s purses, Hubbard interviewed a group of diverse men, whose candid and comic observations add a “fun and thought-provoking perspective” to the documentary.

After viewing the film (and perhaps sipping some wine!), audience members are excited to continue the conversation, and Hubbard serves as the host and facilitator as women come onstage to share their stories—and their purses! Using a “talk show” format, but with constant audience participation, Hubbard uses her wit and warmth to encourage women to dig out their very personal items—sometimes strange, sometimes ordinary, sometimes sentimental, and a mixture of poignant and humorous. Into this mix, Hubbard adds drawings for donated purses, and prizes for such coveted titles as “Heaviest Purse,” “Oldest Purse,” and “Most Unusual Purse.”

Because Hubbard believes strongly in the obvious connection between opening our purses for entertainment and opening them to donate to worthy causes, she often designates a non-profit that works on behalf of women to be the recipient of a portion of the event’s proceeds.Audiences leave The Purse Chronicles fully entertained and better connected to the universal sisterhood of women and their purses.