Press release
Liz Canner's Feature Documentary Opens February 11, 2011
ORGASM INC.
Opens at the Quad Cinema in New York on February 11, 2011
Opens at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago on February 11, 2011
Opens at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles March, 2011
Liz Canner's shocking yet entertaining documentary ORGASM INC. explores the strange science of female pleasure, and in the process reveals the often warped mentality of our pharmaceutical and medical industries.
ORGASM INC. begins when filmmaker Liz Canner is hired to edit erotic videos to be used in a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first FDA approved "Viagra" drug for women that will treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).
Intrigued, Liz decides to make a movie about the science of female pleasure. But she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with other medical and pharmaceutical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of profit.
With unique access and a deft style of interviewing, Liz embarks on a nine year odyssey as she follows pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers who are racing to be the first to win FDA approval for their product - be it pill, patch, nose spray, or some other delivery device.
The promised cure: "normal" sexual function and orgasm. The prize: billions of dollars in profits.
Despite its serious agenda, Canner brings wry humor to her film. Featuring illuminating footage and interviews with activists, doctors and medical experts (including Chicago-based sex therapist Dr. Laura Berman, whose new show will debut on the Oprah Winfrey Network), ORGASM INC. is a powerful, timely and, yes, entertaining look inside Big Pharma and other medical companies with their often misleading marketing campaigns that literally and figuratively reshape our everyday lives.
Upbeat, engaging, enlightening, and provocative, ORGASM INC. will change the way you think about sex.
ORGASM INC. is award-winning director Liz Canner's first feature documentary. Canner was recently named one of the top ten independent filmmakers to watch in 2009 by The Independent Magazine and honored with a Visionary Award from Dartmouth College for the movie. Since earning her BA with Honors from Brown University in 1991, she has received more than 45 awards, honors and grants for her innovative documentary projects on human rights issues. Canner's documentaries have been broadcast on PBS, cable stations and internationally in many countries. They have screened at festivals like The New York Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. For her contribution to the field, Canner has been honored with a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Bunting) Fellowship from Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship.
ORGASM INC.
A film by Liz Canner
78 minutes, English, 2010
Digibeta, Stereo, 1.33 Aspect Ratio, Color
Director, Producer, Editor and Cinematographer Liz Canner
Executive Producers Julie Parker Benello, Wendy Ettinger, Judith Helfand, Marc Weiss
Edited by Sandra Christie, Jeremiah Zagar
Original Score by Stephanie Olmanni, Alex Barnett, Don Glasgo
First Run Features has been a leading indie film distributor since 1979. Last year the company celebrated its 30th Anniversary with a retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Recent releases include Joe Berlinger's CRUDE, the Academy Award-nominated documentary THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS, and KINGS OF PASTRY, from the legendary filmmaking team of DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
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Liz Canner's Feature Documentary Opens February 11, 2011
ORGASM INC.
Opens at the Quad Cinema in New York on February 11, 2011
Opens at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago on February 11, 2011
Opens at Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles March, 2011
Liz Canner's shocking yet entertaining documentary ORGASM INC. explores the strange science of female pleasure, and in the process reveals the often warped mentality of our pharmaceutical and medical industries.
ORGASM INC. begins when filmmaker Liz Canner is hired to edit erotic videos to be used in a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first FDA approved "Viagra" drug for women that will treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD).
Intrigued, Liz decides to make a movie about the science of female pleasure. But she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with other medical and pharmaceutical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of profit.
With unique access and a deft style of interviewing, Liz embarks on a nine year odyssey as she follows pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers who are racing to be the first to win FDA approval for their product - be it pill, patch, nose spray, or some other delivery device.
The promised cure: "normal" sexual function and orgasm. The prize: billions of dollars in profits.
Despite its serious agenda, Canner brings wry humor to her film. Featuring illuminating footage and interviews with activists, doctors and medical experts (including Chicago-based sex therapist Dr. Laura Berman, whose new show will debut on the Oprah Winfrey Network), ORGASM INC. is a powerful, timely and, yes, entertaining look inside Big Pharma and other medical companies with their often misleading marketing campaigns that literally and figuratively reshape our everyday lives.
Upbeat, engaging, enlightening, and provocative, ORGASM INC. will change the way you think about sex.
ORGASM INC. is award-winning director Liz Canner's first feature documentary. Canner was recently named one of the top ten independent filmmakers to watch in 2009 by The Independent Magazine and honored with a Visionary Award from Dartmouth College for the movie. Since earning her BA with Honors from Brown University in 1991, she has received more than 45 awards, honors and grants for her innovative documentary projects on human rights issues. Canner's documentaries have been broadcast on PBS, cable stations and internationally in many countries. They have screened at festivals like The New York Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. For her contribution to the field, Canner has been honored with a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Bunting) Fellowship from Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship.
ORGASM INC.
A film by Liz Canner
78 minutes, English, 2010
Digibeta, Stereo, 1.33 Aspect Ratio, Color
Director, Producer, Editor and Cinematographer Liz Canner
Executive Producers Julie Parker Benello, Wendy Ettinger, Judith Helfand, Marc Weiss
Edited by Sandra Christie, Jeremiah Zagar
Original Score by Stephanie Olmanni, Alex Barnett, Don Glasgo
First Run Features has been a leading indie film distributor since 1979. Last year the company celebrated its 30th Anniversary with a retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Recent releases include Joe Berlinger's CRUDE, the Academy Award-nominated documentary THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS, and KINGS OF PASTRY, from the legendary filmmaking team of DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
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Press release (courtesy of IDA)
Alex Gibney's
CLIENT 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Opens in NYC on Nov. 5, 2010 - Chicago, LA and San Francisco on Nov. 12
Sex and lies, power and passion, high ideals and cut-throat enemies collide in surprisingly sympathetic, comic and tragic ways in Alex Gibney’s provocative new film CLIENT 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.
Nicknamed "The Sheriff of Wall Street" when he was NY's Attorney General, many believed he was on his way to becoming the first Jewish President. Then, shockingly, his meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when this paragon of rectitude was caught seeing prostitutes.
As his powerful enemies gloated, his supporters questioned the timing of it all: as the Sheriff fell, so did the financial markets, in a cataclysm that threatened to unravel the global economy.
With unique access to the escort world as well as friends, colleagues and enemies of the ex-Governor, the film deftly explores the hidden contours of this tale of hubris, sex, and power.
Visit the official website: http://www.client9themovie.com/
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Alex Gibney's
CLIENT 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Opens in NYC on Nov. 5, 2010 - Chicago, LA and San Francisco on Nov. 12
Sex and lies, power and passion, high ideals and cut-throat enemies collide in surprisingly sympathetic, comic and tragic ways in Alex Gibney’s provocative new film CLIENT 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.
Nicknamed "The Sheriff of Wall Street" when he was NY's Attorney General, many believed he was on his way to becoming the first Jewish President. Then, shockingly, his meteoric rise turned into a precipitous fall when this paragon of rectitude was caught seeing prostitutes.
As his powerful enemies gloated, his supporters questioned the timing of it all: as the Sheriff fell, so did the financial markets, in a cataclysm that threatened to unravel the global economy.
With unique access to the escort world as well as friends, colleagues and enemies of the ex-Governor, the film deftly explores the hidden contours of this tale of hubris, sex, and power.
Visit the official website: http://www.client9themovie.com/
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