"Remember that scene where Sharon Stone crosses her legs in Basic instincts? Was that her choice? How about the painful scene where Lena Headey’s face was CGI pasted onto her body double’s own body to do her infamous walk of shame? Was that planned or agreed to? Or was that typical bait and switch where female actors get roles they are promised with control over how much of nudity they will do which is taken away from them mid-filming? Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Rose McGowan and more talk about how the film industry, lies, broken contracts and complete loss of control of how much the world sees of an actress’s body has been normalized by male directors of films for decades. The effort to change this is being lead by some of those victims." -- Katherine Kowalczyk, Director of NHdocs
An eye-opening investigation into the making of Hollywood sex scenes, shedding light on the real-life experiences behind classic scenes of cinema and tracing the legacy of exploitation of women in the entertainment industry. Body Parts features Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Rose McGowan, Emily Meade, and so many others, sharing their eye-opening stories about how nudity on the big screen is rarely as comfortable as it seems.
DIRECTOR'S BIO: KRISTY GUEVARA-FLANAGAN is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television where she heads the MFA Directing Documentary concentration. Her most recent short film Águilas (co-directed with Maite Zubiaurre; SXSW, PBS, The New Yorker), about a group of volunteers who help recover bodies of missing migrants crossing the border, was short-listed for the 2022 Academy Awards. Kristy has been making award-winning documentary films that focus on gender and representation for over two decades. Her debut feature, Going on 13 (co-directed with Dawn Valadez, 2009), covering four years in the lives of four adolescent girls premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS. Her follow-up feature, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013), traces the evolution of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. Starring Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, and real-life superheroines such as Gloria Steinem and Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre), the film garnered numerous awards, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2013. Her short, What Happened to Her (2016) explores our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen and premiered at Hot Docs, where it received an honorable mention for best short. Kristy’s work has been funded by ITVS, the Sundance Institute, Fork Films, the International Documentary Association, Latino Public Broadcasting, and California Humanities. Many of her films are currently in educational distribution with Women Make Movies.
