NFB's special programs:.Emerging Filmmakers Project. Agency - English program:.Pacific and Yukon Centre.

Writer, Katherine Monk ; director, Katherine Monk ; producer, Shirley Vercruysse, Selwyn Jacob ; editor, Jenn Strom, Lisa Binkley ; director of photography, Catherine Lutes ; original music, Lin Gardiner ; sound design, Lin Gardiner ; story editor, Lynne Stopkewich ; sound recordist, Lisa Kolisnyk ; animation, Jenn Strom ; consultant, Lynne Stopkewich, Maren Hancock ; sound mix technician, Chris McLaren ; executive producer, Shirley Vercruysse, Tracey Friesen.

Recorded 2015.

Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is the most lucrative sector of the music industry, but it's a world dominated by men, who represent 100 per cent of the genre's top earners. Rhiannon Rozier wanted to break into that world, but the Vancouver-raised DJ says she ran into the glass ceiling. She couldn't make it to the next level, so she did something she never thought she would do: she posed for Playboy. The rationale seems absurd, yet strangely familiar, which is what attracted filmmaker/journalist Katherine Monk to Rozier's story. "This is a movie about how our society assigns value to women," says Monk, who followed Rozier to a show in Fort McMurray, Alberta to capture the surreal lifestyle and daily reality of a working DJ. Through impressionistic images, verite montage and a bathroom sequence showing Rozier negotiating with her own reflection as she dons her performance persona, Rock the Box shows us one woman who rocked expectation by owning her own image, her own voice, and her own box.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).