The Because Gender film series presents a special screening of Body Parts, followed by a virtual discussion with filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Helen Hood Scheer on Friday, April 21 at 6:30 pm in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center’s Browning Cinema. The screening is free, and tickets will be available one hour before the event. Reserve tickets
Body Parts traces the evolution of "sex" on-screen from a woman’s perspective, exposing the uncomfortable realities behind some of Hollywood’s most iconic scenes. Body Parts features candid interviews with actors and creators who are advocating for change in how sex scenes are produced, including Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Billings, Jane Fonda, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Emily Meade, Angela Robinson, Stacy Rukeyser, Tanya Saracho, David Simon, and Joey Soloway.
Director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film, and Television, where she heads the MFA Directing Documentary concentration. Kristy has been making award-winning documentary films that focus on gender and representation for over two decades, including the features Going on 13 (2009) and Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013), as well as the short What Happened to Her (2016), which explores our cultural obsession with images of dead women on screen. Her most recent short Águilas, co-directed with Maite Zubiaurre, is about a group of volunteers who help recover bodies of missing migrants crossing the border. Águilas was short-listed for the 2022 Academy Awards.
Producer Helen Hood Scheer is a documentary filmmaker, freelance producer, and Associate Professor at California State University Long Beach, where she spearheads the Creative Nonfiction program. Helen’s directorial debut JUMP! (2007) earned numerous accolades and was acquired by Showtime. Documentaries that she produced, directed, shot, and/or edited have screened at over 100 venues including Hot Docs, Doc NYC, The National Gallery of Art, and the U.S. Department of State’s American Film Showcase.
Further information about the film and filmmakers can be found here.
This event is co-sponsored by Notre Dame's Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and Gender Studies Program, IUSB's Women's and Gender Studies Program, and Saint Mary's Department of Gender and Women's Studies.