Lifetime Guarantee: Phranc's Adventure in Plastic

Jewish Lesbian folk singing tupperware dealer Phranc is a demi god amongst sellers of those strange plastic bowls. She is regularly acknowledged as one of the top sellers in the country and enjoys the perks that go with the trade. And she is good at what she does, combining music, infectious enthusiasm and a limitless supply of knowledge she consistently breaks her own sales records.

This documentary is an insightful, hilarious and just bloody fantastic look at an industry that is often the victim of derision and scorn; you might snigger at the sight of Phranc and her apron and catalogue, but you will be in no time flat complementing your supplies of Tupperware with some choice selections from her range.

It's a very upbeat documentary, only allowing a negative look when Phranc worries about the perception she puts forward - she is after all a six foot, crew cutted, man's suit wearing ball of energy - it can be very offputting to those not versed in the world of Phranc.

Easily the best thing I have seen at the festival so far; and darn it if people weren't offering to set up Tupperware parties straight afterwards.

I knew this would be an entertaining short, but I was very surprised at the amount of heart that Phranc shows in a film about Tupperware. She is totally aware of how comic the situation is, and one of the highlights are the bits of vintage Tupperware sales films. But between her comic enthusiasm of Tupperware are poignant moments of how she deals with the thinly veiled discrimination she faces as a folk singing lesbian in a world of housewives.

Tupperware is a prominent feature here for very good reason. "All-American Jewish lesbian folk singer" Phranc and her partner have a young child and she wants to be as supportive a mother as she is a partner. Touring the country is no longer an option, but selling Tupperware gives Phranc the chance to live locally, to work with empowered women and to sell an ethical product while using her performance skills to maximum advantage. Phranc also does well selling her CD's at the same time as she's pitching Tupperware - and people line up to book her parties (so they should).

This is an extraordinarily entertaining documentary - and a totally empowering experience for viewers, whether gay, straight, male or female. We're privileged to have an intimate view of Phranc's rise and rise within the company as she applies all of her skills to achieve the very best she can - and we feel her pain when she knows that her sexuality and honesty are the very attributes that are impeding her acceptance by the Tupperware hierarchy as being an equal with other women.

At the end of a screening at the Brisbane International Film festival 2002, a woman stood up in the audience and proudly shouted her identity as both a Tupperware salesday and a lesbian.