A documentary film that won audience awards at festivals in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston is the Bermuda International Film Festival?s June Film Night selection.

?Double Dare? by director Amanda Micheli, chronicles the lives of two stuntwomen ? veteran Jeanne Epper and newcomer Zoe Bell. It will screen Thursday June 30 at 7.30 p.m. in the Tradewinds Auditorium at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute theatre.

Aside from audience choice awards at the American Film Institute, San Francisco International Film Festival and Independent Film Festival of Boston events, the film won the Best Documentary prize at the Woodstock Film Festival, and a Special Jury Prize at the Boston festival. It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Ms. Epper?s career highlight involved doubling for Lynda Carter on the television series, Wonder Woman. She has also doubled Shirley MacLaine, Kathleen Turner, Linda Evans, Sally Kellerman, Diane Ladd, Louise Fletcher, Cybill Shepherd and Shelley Long. At the 1985 Stunt Awards, she was presented with the Most Spectacular Stunt Sequence Award for her work on Romancing the Stone.

Ms. Bell is the primary double on Xena: Warrior Princess. She also doubled Uma Thurman in Quenton Tarantino?s Kill Bill. The film features interviews with Lynda Carter, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Lawless as well as rollicking live-action stunt sequences.

Double Dare explores the lives of two women at drastically different crossroads. One is a grandmother, struggling against the ageing process and the invisibility of older women in Hollywood while the other is a brash young woman unaware of the history of her male-dominated industry.

?We chose Jeannie and Zoe as characters because they set up dichotomies of young/old and past/present, between which lie the experiences of so many women defining their own identities in a culture plagued by gender stereotypes,? Ms Micheli says. ?Duality is an important theme in the film. Wonder Woman and Xena are doubles for each other, and Jeannie and Zoe are doubles for them, doubles for each other, and doubles for the average woman who struggles to maintain a family and a career against the race of time.?

Tickets to BIFF Film Nights are $5 for BIFF Film Club members, and $8 for non-members. Filmgoers can reserve tickets by e-mailing BIFF at infobiff.bm, or by calling the BIFF office at 293-3456. Tickets can be picked up at the BUEI from 6.30 p.m. on the evening of the screening.