This week, we welcome guest host Jennifer Proctor, filmmaker and Associate Professor of Journalism and Screen Studies at University of Michigan-Dearborn, for a robust discussion of the new documentary#FemalePleasure and its examination of female agency in the modern world. Following that group review, we play Chris’s interview with director Pia Hellenthal and writer Giorgia Malatrasi, co-creators of Searching Eva, a highly stylized portrait of feminist intellectual and sex worker Eva Collé. Join us as we follow women forging their own paths, patriarchy be damned.

Group Review Documentary:

#FEMALEPLEASURE (Barbara Miller, 2019)

Begins releasing in U.S. theaters on October 18

Film Featured in Interview Portion:

SEARCHING EVA (Pia Hellenthal, 2019)

Currently playing in festivals

Other Films and Sites Mentioned:

• Born into Brothels (Zana Briski/Ross Kauffman, 2005)
• CinemAbility (Jenni Gold, 2012)
• Detrás de la Realidad (SMU Meadows School of the Arts’ Ignite/Arts Dallas Initiative/The Community Action Network, a program of Bachman Lake Together/ The Meadows School’s Division of Film and Media Arts, 2019)
• EDIT Media
• Eva Collé’s Instagram
• Eva Collé’s Tumblr
• JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
• Lincoln (Steven Spielberg, 2012)
• One of Us (Heidi Ewing/Rachel Grady, 2017)

Links to review and interview by Christopher Llewellyn Reed:

• Film Festival Today review of #FemalePleasure
• Film Festival Today interview with director Pia Hellenthal and writer Giorgia Malatrasi of Searching Eva

Timestamps:

• 00:37 – Intro
• 05:53 – Group Discussion of #FEMALE PLEASURE
• 21:53 – Chris interviews Pia Hellenthal and Giorgia Malatrasi of SEARCHING EVA
• 37:40 – Doc Talk

Website/Email:

www.fogoftruth.com

[email protected]

Credits:

Artwork by Hilary Campbell

Intro music by Jeremiah Moore

Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst)

Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed