Gold
Directed by Paige McKenna Grube
Documentary Feature
United States | 80 min | 2024
GOLD is a documentary exploring the lives of four dancers at the Gold Nugget strip club in Spread Eagle, Wisconsin. The film focuses heavily on Dusty’s story, who was a dancer in the 90s. She has owned the club for 30 years, and runs it in a way that empowers women, guiding them to further education, encourages them toward sobriety, and offers respect and support through unconditional and sometimes tough love. Each of these women have unique pasts that landed them in the industry, but each of their stories are relatable to women everywhere. Both inspiring and heartbreaking at times, GOLD offers a unique perspective into the world of women who work at this particular club in this rural part of the US. GOLD is an inspiring story of resilience, overcoming oppression, and finding your voice. GOLD is a film empowering those in the sex industry and highlighting all the good that can come from independence, self-respect, confidence, and bodily autonomy.