MY NAME IS ANDREA
A Film by Pratibha Parmar
This is a film like no other — lyrical and journalistic, placed in time and also timeless. And now that Andrea Dworkin's words are turning out to predict headlines, from Times Up! to the gender of terrorism, this film will illuminate what's going on and help us know what to do.
— Gloria Steinem
Featuring
Amandla Stenberg
as Wild Child
Amandla Stenberg is best known for her portrayal of Rue in The Hunger Games. Amandla appears in the visual album Beyoncé: Lemonade (2016). In March 2016 Fox 2000 won a heated bidding war for Angela Thomas' debut novel, The Hate U Give, with Amandla attached to star in the lead role. The actress appears in the YA adaptation Everything, Everything (2017), out May 19, the Amma Asante World War II vehicle, Where Hands Touch (2017), and the sci-fi thriller The Darkest Minds.
Soko
as Poet
Stéphanie Sokolinski, aka Soko, is an award winning French singer-songwriter, musician and actress. As an actress she is known for Her (2013), The Dancer (2016) and Augustine (2012). She was nominated for a Cesar, France’s highest acting award in 2010 & 2017.
Ashley Judd
as Rolling Thunder
American actress and political activist Ashley Judd grew up in a family of successful performing artists as the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd and the sister of Wynonna Judd. While she is best known for an ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades, (Frida & Double Jeopardy) she has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism.
IMDB ProfilePatti LuPone
as Pariah
Patti LuPone is best known for her work in stage musicals. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner and a two-time Tony Award winner. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee. Patti is a graduate of the first class of the Drama Division of New York’s Juilliard School and a founding member of John Houseman's The Acting Company in which she toured the country for four years, her subsequent New York credits include Dario Fo's Accidental Death of An Anarchist, David Mamet's The Water Engine, Edmond and The Woods and Israel Horovitz' Stage Directions and performances in the musicals Pal Joey for City Center Encores!, Anything Goes (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Cradle Will Rock, Oliver!, Evita (Tony and Drama Desk Awards- Best Actress in a Musical), Working and The Robber Bridegroom. In London, she won the Olivier Award for her performances as Fantine in the original production of Les Miserables and in the Acting Company production of The Cradle Will Rock. She also created the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award, and recreated her Broadway performance of Maria Callas in Master Class.
Film: The Comedian, Union Square, Parker, City by the Sea, David Mamet’s Heist, State and Main; Just Looking, Summer of Sam, The 24 Hour Woman, Family Prayers, Driving Miss Daisy, Witness.Andrea Riseborough
as Lover
Andrea Riseborough is an English actress. She made her film debut in Venus (2006), and has subsequently appeared in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham (all 2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer, Disconnect (both 2012), Welcome to the Punch, Oblivion (both 2013), Birdman (2014), Nocturnal Animals (2016), Battle of the Sexes and The Death of Stalin (both 2017) and Nancy (2018).
Outside of film, Riseborough received a BAFTA nomination for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the television film The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), and won critical acclaim for her performances in the Channel 4 miniseries The Devil's Whore (2008) and National Treasure (2016). Her stage credits include August Strindberg's Miss Julie and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (Theatre Royal, both 2006), and Anton Chekhov's Ivanov (West End, 2008)
IMDB ProfileAndrea Dworkin
as Herself
Creative Team
PRATIBHA PARMAR
Writer | Director
Pratibha has been making award-winning films for over 20 years and brings a passionate commitment to illuminating untold stories with integrity. Her 2013 award winning feature film, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth tells the life story of American literary icon Alice Walker. Author and editor of several books, Pratibha was awarded The Visionary Award for her body of work from the One in Ten Film Festival and is a winner of the Frameline Film Festival Life Time Achievement Award. Pratibha has was nominated for a GLAAD Global Voice advocate at the 25TH ANNUAL GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS. In 2013 Pratibha was Visiting Artist at Stanford University in the Theatre & Performance Studies Department and is currently an Associate Professor in the Film department at California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Pratibha is a voting member of AMPAS and BAFTA.
SHAHEEN HAQ
Producer
Shaheen joined Kali Films in 2009 as a Production Executive where she has been working on developing content, writing and production. Shaheen produced the documentary Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth and was directly involved in structuring international co-productions, raising finance with international broadcasters and investors to all aspects of production, post-production and delivery to distribution. Shaheen’s film collaboration with Pratibha Parmar began as Production Designer on Parmar’s early films Sari Red, Emergence, A Place of Rage, Khush, and Warrior Marks. She is currently in development with feature and documentary projects for Kali Films and Kali8 Productions LLC. Prior to Kali Films Shaheen trained and worked as an Architect for over 25 years in the UK.
AMY SCHOLDER
Consulting Producer
Amy Scholder is a leader in independent publishing and LGBT activism. She produces events, conferences, and festivals; and has been managing imprints in the nonprofit and independent publishing worlds for over two decades. She currently serves as president of the Board of Directors for Lambda Literary. Her first producing credit, DISCLOSURE: TRANS LIVES ON SCREEN premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020. Amy co-edited the collection, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, published by MIT Press in 2019.
KARTIK VIJAY
Cinematagrapher
Kartik, started his journey with a BFA in Applied arts and quickly graduated to cinematography from The Los Angeles Film School.
With over 400 advertising commercials, 7 feature films and multiple shorts including Moon Molson’s The Bravest, The Boldest that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2014, he has worked on films that have snagged honours at some leading festivals including the Cannes Lions for advertising.
His feature, ‘Manto’, directed by Nandita Das premiered at Cannes 2018 in the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section.
MAYA HAWKE
Editor
Maya Hawke is the creator of the interactive social media video novels Box of Birds and Currency of Despair. She is the director of the upcoming film Unfated Yet (featuring Werner Herzog). She is the co-director of Little Ethiopia, a live documentary, performed at the Sundance Film Festival 2019, in NY at MoMI, and in London at ICA Frames of Representation. Maya is the editor of over a dozen feature documentaries, including Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) and Freedom Fields (2018). Also of the BBC series House of Assad: A Dangerous Dynasty, and Moon Landing Live for Channel 4. She was an advisor at the Sundance Edit and Story Lab 2018, an advisor at the Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab 2019 and a Sundance Nonfiction Directors Residency Fellow in 2018.
CECILIE SURASKY
Associate Producer
Cecilie Surasky is a veteran social justice movement-builder who specializes in creating high impact engagement campaigns that generate support for challenging political causes. She was the founding communications and deputy director of Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the largest Jewish grassroots organizations in the country. The video she wrote and co-directed about Gaza was named the most impactful video of 2014 by The Nation Magazine; her other video work has appeared in LGBT festivals throughout the world and at the Museum of Modern Art in NY. Cecilie co-founded one of the first commercial AM radio LGBT talk radio programs in the US, and was a pioneering LGBT columnist for a Pulitzer prize-winning US daily newspaper. As Associate Producer, Cecilie is involved in raising finance and creating online visibility for the film on multiple platforms.
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