Pratibha PARMAR
Asian Premiere
My Name Is Andrea is the story of controversial feminist writer and public intellectual Andrea Dworkin, who offered a revolutionary analysis of male supremacy with iconoclastic flair.
Pratibha Parmar¡¯s My Name Is Andrea is a biographical film about feminist writer Andrea Dworkin. The film chronicles her life from her childhood dream of becoming a writer, her marriage to an abusive husband, and her fight against patriarchy, pornography, and male violence in the feminist era. However, the film goes beyond a simple documentary by not merely editing and connecting Dworkin¡¯s actual clips from documentaries, talk shows, and news but giving her language to five actors: Amandla Stenberg, Soko, Andrea Riseborough, Ashley Judd, and Christine Lahti. The actors perform different stages of Dworkin¡¯s life, and their portrayals give a cinematic embodiment of Dworkin¡¯s life. This approach offers Dworkin¡¯s language a new dimension and pathway for empathy. The casting of Amandla Stenberg, a non-Caucasian actor, and the significant inclusion of criticism of racial discrimination express Kenyan and Indian-British Pratibha Parmar¡¯s gratitude for solidarity from Jewish white feminists and demonstrate the universality of Dworkin¡¯s language. In the era of overall backlash, the language of this anger is more urgent and powerful than ever for us living in it. [Djuna]
Code | Time | Theater | Grade |
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202 | 2023-08-26 | 10:00 - 11:32 | ||
525 | 2023-08-29 | 19:30 - 21:02 | MEGABOX SangamWorldcup 9 |
Pratibha Parmar is an award-winning filmmaker with a proven track record of bringing deeply compelling stories into mainstream media, stories that resonate beyond the margins.
The Film Collaborative | Kathy SUSCA | kathy@thefilmcollaborative.org |