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  • The Story
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    • 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

    • The Film | The Story

      My Name Is Andrea, a genre defying film explores the visceral effects of male violence on women’s psyches and bodies through the compelling verbatim writings of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005).

      The original ‘nasty woman’, Dworkin’s experience of male violence was the unflinching compass for her writings.

      My Name Is Andrea imaginatively interweaves dramatized personas, archival footage and interviews to create an arc of one life as dramatic as the decades in which it unfolded and speaks directly to the #MeToo movement of today.

    • 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), the Amma Asante World War II vehicle Where Hands Touch (2018), the sci-fi thriller The Darkest Minds (2018), and the crime drama The Hate U Give (2018).

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      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.

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      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.
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      Christine Lahti

      as Pariah

      Christine Lahti has been working in the film industry for nearly four decades after her initial breakthrough role in ...And Justice For All. Just five years later, she would receive her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the film Swing Shift. She would also garner an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for her movie, Lieberman in Love, in which she starred and directed. She has also won a Golden Globe for her work on Chicago Hope, and can be seen in the hit NBC show, The Blacklist. While maintaining an incredibly successful film and television career, she also has developed a noteworthy Broadway career, starting with her 1980 Broadway debut in Loose Ends. Recently on the stage, she completed a run as ‘Gloria Steinem’ in the hit off-Broadway play, GLORIA: A Life. Christine is currently starring in the CBS show, Evil, created by Michelle and Robert King.

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      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), Nancy (2018) and The Kindness of Strangers (2019).

      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)
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      Andrea Dworkin

      as Herself

    • I love the film. It is brilliant and searing and timely as hell. It is original and deep and moving and tender. This film is connected to everything our movement is and because Andrea was such a brave visionary warrior VDay supports the film in honor of you and her. Susan and I feel thrilled to join you with the deepest solidarity and love.

      —V (Eve Ensler)

       

       

    • Creative Team

      PRATIBHA PARMAR

      Writer | Director

      Pratibha Parmar has an exemplary track record as a director of vision for her pioneering documentaries and dramas. An award-winning filmmaker and a human rights activist, her work has received international recognition and widely exhibited at film festivals, art galleries and on BBC and PBS. Her bold and visually arresting films explore and capture untold stories often on the margins. Pratibha was awarded the ICON award at the London Indian Film Festival in 2017, honored with The Visionary Award from the One in Ten Film Festival and is a past winner of the Frameline Film Festival Life Time Achievement Award. Pratibha's doc, Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth (2014) was broadcast on American Masters on PBS, kicking off Black History month. The film received the Jury Award at the Napa Valley Film Festival. Pratibha is an Associate Professor in the Film Program at California College of Arts in San Francisco, a member of the DGA, AMPAS, Sundance Institute Alum and CEO at Kali Films.

      SHAHEEN HAQ

      Producer

      Shaheen is a Sundance Institute Alum and CEO at Kali Films and Kali8 Productions where she produced the documentary ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH (2013) for ITVS, PBS | American Masters Series, BOS (NL) and the BBC (UK). The film premiered in the UK to two sold out performances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Grand Lake Theatre, Oakland CA. Shaheen is involved in structuring international co-productions, raising finance to all aspects of production, post-production, deliverables to distribution. Shaheen has also collaborated with Pratibha as Production Designer on Pratibha's films notably EMERGENCE, SARI RED, KHUSH to A PLACE OF RAGE, and WARRIOR MARKS. Shaheen has also worked as an Architect, Project Manager, and CEO for over 25 years in the UK Construction Industry and brings this discipline, rigour and creative expertise to documentary filmmaking.

      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

      Consulting 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.

    • Executive Producers

      Regina K Scully
      V (Eve Ensler)

      Geralyn White Dreyfous

      Gloria Steinem

       

      In Presentation with V (Eve Ensler) & V-Day

      In Association with Artemis Rising Foundation

    • Additional Team

      Contributing Producer

      Abigail Disney

      Jodie Evans

      Associate Producers

      Nicole Melillo

      Cecilie Surasky

    • Stills

    • News

      Check out what the film has been up to.

      DocPitch

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      Aug 13th, 2020

       

      Make sure to VOTE for our film MY NAME IS ANDREA. We are very excited as this is the 1st public viewing of a 4 minute teaser of the film. You will also see us do our first virtual verbal pitch about why the film is timely and important.

       

      The Link above takes you to the pitch and voting website. Please share with your networks.

      Variety DocPitch Write Up

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      Aug 12th, 2020

       

      In a write up in Variety about DocPitch, the My Name is Andrea pitch is mentioned.

      Women and Hollywood Fork Films Grant Write Up

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      March 10th, 2020

       

      Women and Hollywood reports on My Name is Andrea and others receiving a Fork Films documentary grant.

      The Hollywood Reporter Fork Films Grant Announcement

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      March 9th, 2020

       

      Announcement of My Name is Andrea receiving a Fork Films Documentary Grant for the films ability to promote human rights and social justice.

      MNIA Fork Films Project Page

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      Official page for My Name is Andrea on the Fork Films website.

      Sundance Documentary Fund

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      Sept 26th, 2017 

       

      My Name is Andrea receives a Documentary Fund grant courtesy of the Sundance Institute.

    • Ways You Can Donate

       

      Donations of $500 or more are tax-deductible: you can go online here, or make your check payable to WOMEN MAKE MOVIES, with 'My Name Is Andrea' in the memo line. Send to: Barbara Ghammashi, Women Make Movies, 115 West 29th Street, Suite 1200 New York, NY 10001

       

      For contributions under $500, write to us at info@kalifilms.com if you would like to send a cheque, or click on the Paypal link below:

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