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Lindsay Ellis (aka "Nostalgia Chick"), is a film student IRL. She's just completed a short documentary, which she describes as follows:
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The [abortion] debate in America has a way of dehumanizing the people (particularly women) who go through it on both ends, pro-life, pro-choice, whatever, which to me seems a bit counterintuitive since it’s a deeply personal thing to go through, though that personal aspect seems to be the thing that people are most uncomfortable with. I want to stress, this is NOT a political documentary; the goal is to get a wide array of experiences and capture the emotions of them, from people who are glad of their decisions to those that regret them for the rest of their lives. I suppose if I was to put forth a goal, it would be to engender dialogue on the subject, to show how common it is, and show both people who have gone through it and those who haven’t that whatever they’re feeling is not invalid; the “what if” is a very big and scary notion to deal with.
"""
Not exactly light and fluffy, but this approach sounds to me like a really important, and sadly novel, one to take. She's currently submitting the film to festivals to get it noticed, and this costs money. To raise funds, she's offering a copy (just burned from her laptop) to anyone who donates $25 or more (with a request to PLEASE not put it online, since she isn't legally allowed to do that yet).
Her post on the subject, with donation link, is here.
Her original post with more information on the film is here.
"""
The [abortion] debate in America has a way of dehumanizing the people (particularly women) who go through it on both ends, pro-life, pro-choice, whatever, which to me seems a bit counterintuitive since it’s a deeply personal thing to go through, though that personal aspect seems to be the thing that people are most uncomfortable with. I want to stress, this is NOT a political documentary; the goal is to get a wide array of experiences and capture the emotions of them, from people who are glad of their decisions to those that regret them for the rest of their lives. I suppose if I was to put forth a goal, it would be to engender dialogue on the subject, to show how common it is, and show both people who have gone through it and those who haven’t that whatever they’re feeling is not invalid; the “what if” is a very big and scary notion to deal with.
"""
Not exactly light and fluffy, but this approach sounds to me like a really important, and sadly novel, one to take. She's currently submitting the film to festivals to get it noticed, and this costs money. To raise funds, she's offering a copy (just burned from her laptop) to anyone who donates $25 or more (with a request to PLEASE not put it online, since she isn't legally allowed to do that yet).
Her post on the subject, with donation link, is here.
Her original post with more information on the film is here.
