(Festival de Cine Mexicano)
y
ar
world cinema
document
y
contemporar
one for the road (La ultima y nos vamos) orgasm inc.
MEXICO
On a Friday night, three well-off young men looking for action decide
USA
Documentarian Liz Canner takes a pointed, frequently hilarious, and
Director: Eva López Sánchez to venture across Mexico City – and thus across the class lines dividing Director: Liz Canner sometimes frightening look at the quest of the pharmaceutical industry
Producers: Eva López Sánchez, its 22 million inhabitants, most of whom they would never otherwise Executive Producers: Judith Helfand,
to come up with a version of Viagra for women. In the process, she
Alfredo Mier-y-Terán,
encounter aside from a sales transaction or an incidental glance on
Julie Parker Benello, Marc Weiss,
addresses a host of timely related issues, from corporate greed to
Carlos Mier-y-Terán
the street. Entering this completely foreign and potentially dangerous
Wendy Ettinger
medical malpractice to the devious campaigns to market supposed
Screenwriters: Eva López Sánchez,
territory, they receive an eye-opening education like none they have
associate Producer: Sarah Canner
new diseases – above all the dubious affliction called Female Sexual
MS: A to Z
Alfredo Mier-y-Terán
ever had. Rodrigo, who feels smothered by his overprotective mother,
Cinematographer: Liz Canner
Dysfunction. As one critic puts it, “Big Pharma is changing how we think
MS: A to Z
il
Cinematographer: Javier Morón
eludes his bodyguards and wanders the city streets alone until he climbs Editors: Jeremiah Zagar, Liz Canner about our bodies, changing healthy people into patients.”
il
Editor: Mario Sandoval
aboard a bus and strikes up a friendship with the young woman driver. 2009 / color, b&w / 80 min.
E F
2009 / color, b&w / 90 min.
Also taken for a ride – by two construction workers – is Juan, who is Canner’s ingenious method of access involves taking a job editing
E F
h h
T
carrying around an expensive antique watch meant to be a gift for his pornography to be used in the research and development phase by
T
girlfriend’s grandfather. Cristian, meanwhile, goes to a strip club, where Liz CannEr small drug company Vivus. The company’s president, who favors garish
EVa LÓPEz SÁnChEz
he meets a beautiful young stripper named Lucia – and soon finds
Since graduating from Brown University
bowties and makes surreal declarations about his mission in life, is
Born in 1954 in Mexico City, Eva
himself in a street fight.
in 1991, Liz Canner has garnered more
only one of many oddities the filmmaker encounters on her search for
López Sánchez studied anthropology,
than 45 awards, honors, and grants
truth, which whisks her from a museum of antique vibrators in San
history, marketing, and advertising for her documentary work, including
at the Centro de Capacitación
Director Eva López-Sánchez based this socially aware drama on the real-
a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Francisco to a slick Chicago sex clinic featuring a “patient concierge” to
Cinematográfica. Her short film
life experiences of her cowriter and coproducer Alfredo Mier y Terán.
Study Fellowship from Harvard and a
the medical convention booth of a woman named Lisa, who has such
Objetos perdidos won the Silver The filmmakers did an extensive search over the course of almost two Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation profound second thoughts about touting a procedure called Designer
Ariel, the Mexican Academy of Film’s
years to find the young talent showcased here. Music is the background
Leadership Fellowship. This year,
Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation that she decides to quit her job right there
equivalent of the Oscar.
to these adventures; the soundtrack offers an eclectic mix of musical
Canner was named one of the Ten
on camera.
Independent Filmmakers to Watch by
Filmography
styles that includes mariachi and cumbia (a genre originally from
The Independent Magazine. Orgasm Inc.
Francisca (2002)
Colombia), as well as ballads, country, and hip-hop.
is her first feature documentary.
In the ongoing race to generate supply and demand for “pink” Viagra,
Lady at Night (1993)
Canner increasingly suspects not only corporate malfeasance but disre-
gard for women’s health issues to the point of serious risk: “Hormones,”
Sponsored by:
she notes wryly, “are not necessarily something you want to play with.”
Preceded by:
rubbuds
USA
Director: Jan Chen
2009 / color / 3 min.
Colorful, playful sperm spend the day waiting for their “big moment.”
In cooperation with:
Metropolitan State College of Denver Deptartment of psychology
WOMEN + FilM
110
FOUNDiNg MEMbERS
111
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148 |
Page 149 |
Page 150 |
Page 151 |
Page 152 |
Page 153 |
Page 154 |
Page 155 |
Page 156 |
Page 157 |
Page 158 |
Page 159 |
Page 160 |
Page 161 |
Page 162 |
Page 163 |
Page 164 |
Page 165 |
Page 166 |
Page 167 |
Page 168 |
Page 169 |
Page 170 |
Page 171 |
Page 172 |
Page 173 |
Page 174 |
Page 175 |
Page 176 |
Page 177 |
Page 178 |
Page 179 |
Page 180 |
Page 181 |
Page 182 |
Page 183 |
Page 184 |
Page 185 |
Page 186 |
Page 187 |
Page 188 |
Page 189 |
Page 190 |
Page 191 |
Page 192 |
Page 193 |
Page 194 |
Page 195 |
Page 196 |
Page 197 |
Page 198 |
Page 199 |
Page 200 |
Page 201 |
Page 202