Olympia

Directed by Harry Mavromichalis, this award-winning documentary is a sublimely intimate portrait of a woman becoming her own woman on her own terms to assert a gigantic creative force into the world. Rebelling against her old world panty-sniffing suspicious Greek mother to assert her strong sexual drive, fighting the feeling she was “too ethnic” amid the Boston Brahmin at BU, and starting her own theatre company in New Jersey instead of waiting for the phone to ring, Olympia Dukakis models how to live life with blazing courage. As fellow actors Laura Linney, Diane Ladd, Whoopi Goldberg and Austin Pendleton testify, Olympia is “totally open and crazy”, which is the marker of her absolute sanity.