One month after the death of singer Helen Reddy, the Rotary Club of Armidale AM is hosting a screening of I Am Woman, the film about her life.
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Released last year, the film was scheduled for release in Australia and elsewhere earlier this year, but then the coronavirus pandemic struck.
It finally had its Australian premiere in Adelaide in August.
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Reddy, who died on September 29 aged 78, is best known for her song I Am Woman, the unofficial anthem of the feminist movement.
In 1972, she became the first Australian to win a Grammy Award and in her acceptance speech, she thanked God "because she makes everything possible".
In 2006 Reddy published her memoir, The Woman I Am.
Her life story was later turned into the feature film, which first aired at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
The film's director, Australian Unjoo Moon, was friends with Reddy for years.
"She paved the way for so many and the lyrics that she wrote for 'I Am Woman' changed my life forever like they have done for so many other people and will continue to do for generations to come," she said in a statement after Reddy's death.
The Armidale screening will start at 7pm at Belgrave Cinema on Wednesday. Tickets cost $20 and are available from the cinema or online at belgravecinema.com.au.
All proceeds will be donated to Rotary's End Polio campaign to celebrate World Polio Day this month.
