For our final night on campus, the FEMME Festival will feature a 2-3 movie film night... showing whatever our lovely Femmes decide upon! But these are the films we have ready access to, and we're working to cover a wide range of topics on the female experience, ranging from abortion rights, to sex work, to sex education, orgasms, sex therapy, LGBT horror stories AND love stories, censorship in media, misogynistic dystopian horror-worlds, women in horror, science and sexuality, and more. Because we'll be partnering up with Montclair State's Women's Health Empowerment series, we'd like to show something that relates to women's health. But we'd also like to mix Liouxsie's nerdy obsession with documentaries with comedy, horror, and cutesy love stories.
12th and Delaware is a documentary film set in a crisis pregnancy center and the abortion clinic across the street from it in Fort Pierce, Florida.
A drama that tells the story of a working class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abortions for women in need. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and it was nominated for three Academy Awards and won three BAFTAs.
Inside Deep Throat is a 2005 American documentary about the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat and its effects on American society.
The Education of Shelby Knox is 2005 documentary film that tells the coming of age story about the public speaker and feminist, Shelby Knox[1], a teenage girl who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of Lubbock, Texas. It was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and aired on PBS’ P.O.V. series that same year.
In the shocking and hilarious documentary, filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that wins FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). Orgasm Inc. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire — and that ultimate moment: orgasm.
About searching into the depths of Women in the Horror Genre from Scream Queens to Independent Filmmakers. Find out what Females are all about when it comes to blood, guts, and boobs.
The film is a dramatization of the real-life story ofBrandon Teena, a transgender man played by Hilary Swank, who pursues a relationship with a young woman, played by Chloë Sevigny.
But I'm a Cheerleader is a 1999 American satirical romantic comedy film. Natasha Lyonne stars as Megan Bloomfield, an apparently happy heterosexual high school cheerleader. However, her friends and family are convinced that she is a homosexual and arrange an intervention, sending her to a residential inpatient reparative therapy camp to cure her lesbianism. There Megan soon realizes that she is indeed a lesbian and, despite the therapy, gradually comes to embrace her sexual orientation.
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate is a 1985 American documentary filmdirected by Kirby Dick about the interaction between a sex surrogate and her clients.
This Film is Not Yet Rated is a 2006 independent documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick. The film discusses disparities the filmmaker sees in ratings and feedback: between Hollywoodand independent films, between homosexual and heterosexual sexual situations, between male and female sexual depictions, and between violence and sexual content.
The Business of Being Born is a 2008 documentary film that explores the contemporary experience of childbirth in the United States. Produced by Ricki Lake[1], it compares various childbirth methods, including midwives, natural births, epidurals, and Cesarean sections[2]. The film criticizes the American health care system with its emphasis on drugs and costly interventions and its view of childbirth as a medical emergency rather than a natural occurrence.
The Screwfly Solution is the seventh episode in the second season of Masters of Horror. It is based upon the 1977 science fiction short story of the same name by Alice Sheldon; when a virus overcomes the male population of the world and turns them into murderous psychopaths, a mother and daughter escape across a country where their safety is in question. Michael Gingold of Fangoria magazine, awarded the film three skulls for its "stinging mix of sociopolitical commentary and traditional horror mayhem". The political message was seen as a link between religious fervour and misogyny with special reference to Muslim fundamentalism.
Documentary look at the 1996-97 effort of the dancers and support staff at a San Francisco peep show, The Lusty Lady, to unionize. Angered by arbitrary and race-based wage policies, customers' surreptitious video cameras, and no paid sick days or holidays, the dancers get help from the Service Employees International local and enter protracted bargaining with the union-busting law firm that management hires.
- "The Science of Sex Appeal" (Netflix)
The seemingly elusive qualities of sex appeal are examined in exhaustive detail through the lens of science in this probing documentary, which documents the evolution and function of every component of human attraction. In this study of the real science behind "chemistry," you'll learn how thesubtlest sounds, sights and smells can affect sex appeal, and you'll discover how genetic, hormonal and neurological factors create sparks between people.
- "Indie Sex" (Netflix)
For as long as there've been movies, there's been sex in movies -- a connection that filmmakers Lisa Ades and Lesli Klainberg explore in depth in this four-part series from the Independent Film Channel. In segments titled "Censored," "Taboos," "Teens" and "Extremes," a long list of film industry veterans -- including John Waters, Ally Sheedy, Dita Von Teese, Tatum O'Neal and more -- talk candidly about sex and cinema.
We'd like to think we covered a wide range of films here, but in case we didn't totally read your mind, you have the option to write-in your own film for our Film Screener Wishlist! You can also vote on more than one film, if you can't choose. (We don't blame you: we'd rather make a poll than make a decision ourselves!)
So please, take this poll, pass it along to the loves of your lives, and watch for the results on our Blogger page, Tumblr page, and Facebook page and group. Thank you.
