Tamara de Lempicka is finally having her moment

IT WAS IN 1990, WHEN A THEN 21-YEAR-ELD ACTING NAMED JULIE RUBIO STMBLED ACRINS OF THE PRINTS OF ABRASURE ARTIST NAMED TAMARA de Lempicka at An Art Exbibit Inside A MIAMI HOTEL. Rubio, who would go on to Study at the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute in London and New York City, Had Never Heard of this Artist, but that hardly Matter. She was immediatally captivated by the bold colors and evocative Images of the nude female portraits and over the Next few months, she Went Down Obbit Hole Oversie. Little Did She Know It Was A Quest That Willd Consume The Next Three Decades of Her Life.

Rubio, Who’s Now An Independent Filmmaker Living in the Bay Area, Will Be in Los Angeles Later This Week for the Premiere of Her Film The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival, WHICH WILL Premiere at the LaemmmMMMMMMMMOMLE CINALA IN SANTA Monica, Followed by a Three-Day Run at Theaters Across La The Story Noty Made Gundbreaking Discoveries But Realized That Much of Her Own Life Working As A Queer, Latina FilmmAmaker Mirrored That Subject that Shea Was She.

Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1894, de Lempicka Studied Art in St. Petersburg. In 1917, she and her Husband Fled The Bolsheviks Durying the Russian Revolution and Moved to Paris. IT WAS THAT IS BEGAN PINETING PROFESSIONALY TO PROVIDE FOR HER FAMILY. de Lempicka is Known for Her Post-Cubism Female Nudist Portraits. But as an openly bisexual artist at a moment of whon the world wasn’t exactly accounting of lgbtq, she became something else of an icon. She was Known for Throwing Lavish Parties and for Engaging in Romantic Relationships with Her Male and Female Models. Unlike Her Male Contemporiaries Who Dominated This Genre, de Lempicka Put A Different Spin On the Female Body and Empowered Female Audiens to Gaze Upon Other WOMEN:

HER LIFE WAS ALSO CONSUMED by struggle. As a working Single Mother (She Ended Up Divorcing Her Husband) and A Refuge Twice-Over, She Endured Many Hardeships and Shattered Glass Ceilings But The Never. Nowadays, Her Pieces can sell for eight figures, and collecters include Stars from Madonna to Barbra Streisand to Jack Nicholson. But Mention Her Name in the Same Sennce of Other Female Artists of Her Era Like Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe, and People of FTEn Get Tripped Up Remembering Exactly Whoe She Was. “I LIVE Life in the Margins of Society, and the Rules of Normal Society Don’t Apply to Those Who Live on the Fringe,“ de Lempicka Once Said.

“She was breaking Through Crazy Barriers,“ Rubio Told The Hollywood Reporter. “You See How She Was Tormented by the World’s Events, But She Still Had this Will To Be Great and To Be Seen.”

Every Passion Project Requires A Little Bit of Luck and Rubio’s Arrived in the Form of A Friend Named Roland Weinstein. Weinstein, Who’s Featured in the Film, Was Working at A Gallery in San Francisco’s Union Square WHEN HE STRUCK UP A FRIENDSIP WITH The GRANDDAUGHTERAPLERS. Weinstein Reached Out to Rubio to see if she’d be interested in work with them on a Narrative Feature. He Told Her That Family Was Looking for A Writer, Director and They Wanted It To Be A Woman. She Met with the Family, Won Their Trust and Was Off and Running. That is util the realities of Independent filmmaking in the era of Covid Caunght Up with Her.

“We Attempted to Try and Get Funding for the Narrative Feature. And I Found It To Be Impossible […]The Truth is, Women [filmmakers] just don’t fat funced Like Men do, ”Rubio said. After Years of Struggling, The Covid-19 Pandemic Struck. That’s Wen Rubio Pivoted, Abandonting ADECING MAKING MAKING MAKING MAKING. Never Done.

“There’s a Lot of Blood and Tears and Psychological Damage to Making Independent Film. And THEN YOU HAVE A LOT OF DISTRIBUTORS OR Sales Agents that Hurting OR GOING BANKRUPT. Over by AI, WHICH IS A WHOLE OF SUBJECT. For Now, Rubio Plans to Take Her Projects Directly to Consumers.

In 1939, Tamara Became a refugee for the Second Time, and Briefly Lived in Los Angeles, WHICH HAS ITS OWN Rich Collection of Art Deco Architecture Accounty. She later settled in cuernavaca, mexico, WHERE she LIVED UNTIL Her Death in 1980.

Over Time, de Lempicka’s Story Started to Serve As a Balm for the Filmmaker. Her Queer Identity Helped Rubio Become Aware of, Navigate and Accept Her Own Bisexuality. In the process of researching the artist, Rubio uncovered previosesly unknown elements Sweeping Across Europe.

The israel-Hamas War Has Rekindled Age Old Debates About Antisemitism and Rubio Says Her Film Has Been Impacted by the Charged Political Moment. She’s Been Told to Re-Edit and Take Tamara’s Jewish History Out of the Film. One Distributor Told Her That Independent Filmmakers Should Stop Torturing Themselves Over The Topic Because ‘Nobody Cares.’

Rubio’s Two Word Response: “I Care.”

The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival Will have it La Premiere at LaemmmMle Cinemas from July 17-21.