Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
License to Pimp
License to Pimp
What would you do if your workplace became a brothel?
Would you adapt to it? Fight it? Or quit?
License To Pimp is a feature documentary about the dilemmas that 3 strippers face when they must pay for the privilege to work in strip clubs where management violate their labor rights. Filmed in San Francisco, the filmmaker (an ex-stripper) investigates the various factors that enable the strip clubs to pimp their workers and deny them basic rights that workers across America are guaranteed.
The film chronicles the choices of three strippers and the filmmaker and offers a rare & intimate window into an aspect of this industry that few are privy to. Through these women’s stories, we see the current working conditions of exotic dancers not only in San Francisco, but throughout the nation and globally as strip clubs misclassify workers and engage in illegal and unfair labor practices. We follow an under-aged immigrant teenager, a whistle blower, & a woman trying to transition out of the sex industry.
HIV Sisters: Living Quilt
HIV Sisters: Living Quilt
55 minutes; 2009; USA; online new media; non-fiction; video; color; sound
Writer, Producer, Director, & Camera: Hima B.
Featuring: Aleisha, Anna, Emijah, & Violet, Cynt, Haneefa, Janice, Jai, Kryssy,Ms. M., Gina, & Wanda
Editors: Hima B., Tiffany Lawrence, Laneya Wiles, Leigh Johnson, & Manuel Climaco
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HIV Sisters: Living Quilt is an interactive, web-based, public arts project for all women & girls to share their personal story of being infected, impacted, & at risk for HIV/AIDS. Women and girls are encouraged to use video, images, audio, and text to create their personal stories and share them with their social networks. In 2008, ten African American and Latina women initially launched this online living AIDS quilt with their auto-biographical and biographical vignettes that reflect the feminized impact of this virus.
Share your story!
Straight for the Money
Straight for the Money
1994; 59 minutes; documentary; USA; video; color, sound Producer, Director, & Camera: Hima B. with: Rainbeau, China Blue, Eleanor M., Fatima, Alice B. Brave, Kelly, Dee M., & Jessica Editor: Lara Mac ************** Eight lesbian and bisexual women who work as prostitutes, strippers, porn stars, and phone sex workers discuss how they negotiate their jobs, intimacy with lovers, and values. With "sexperts" Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Scarlot Harlot, and Joan Nestle who provide insight into the historical presence of queer sex workers. ************** EXHIBITION HISTORY: 1995 Whitney Biennial 1994 "From India to America: New Directions in Indian Film & Video", the Whitney Museum 1994 World Premiere: San Francisco Int'l. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
