Free Film Screening and Q&A of the Movie: EVERY BODY
Where: In-Person, SF LGBT Center
When: Wednesday, Oct 25 | 6:30-9 pm
Hosted By: Cultural Programs
About:
This is a free screening of the movie EVERY BODY at the SF LGBT Center! Watch the trailer here.
EVERY BODY is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries. Woven into the story is a stranger-than-fiction case of medical abuse, featuring exclusive footage from the NBC News archives, which helps explain the modern-day treatment of intersex people.
This event will take place in the Rainbow Room at the SF LGBT Center on Wednesday, Oct 25 at 6:30pm with a film introduction by documentary director Julie Cohen. After the film screening, we will have 20 minute discussion about the film with Thea Hillman, a writer and intersex activist from San Francisco. There will be lite refreshments for this film screening event.
About Julie: Julie Cohen is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy winning documentary director. Her most recent film, Every Body, premiered at the Tribeca Film where it won a Subject Matter grant for impact filmmaking and was released theatrically by Focus Features.
