Tracy Flannigan is an independent filmmaker residing in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles who began making movies when she was seventeen years old.
Flannigan's feature-length screenplay, The Late Great W.J., won a fellowship at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
The film was made over a five-year period in which Flannigan dedicated herself to capturing the lives and performances of the all women queercore band, Tribe 8.
Rise Above has screened internationally and won the Jury Award for Best Documentary at Frameline, the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and earned Flannigan the Kodak Emerging Talent Award at Outfest, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
The film is a feature-length experiential cinematic odyssey that explores David Bowie's creative, musical and spiritual journey.