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THE JANES (documentary) discussion with Heather Booth and filmmakers, Tia Lessin & Emma Pildes

Nancy Blachman
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Heather Booth, a key founder of the JANE COLLECTIVE, and Tia Lessin & Emma Pildes, film co-directors, share their experiences, answer questions, and discuss the future of reproductive freedom. In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on the South Side of Chicago. Seven women were arrested and charged. The accused were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds, and safe houses to protect their identities and their work, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions. They called themselves Jane. Co-directors and Sundance Film Festival alumni Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes unearth this timely story to demonstrate how the fight for safe and legal abortions was, and continues to be, an uncertain and perilous undertaking. Electrifying archival footage of Chicago in the late ’60s and early ’70s, coupled with affectingly honest interviews with the Janes themselves, brings to life the city and its spirit of revolution in that historic moment. THE JANES is produced by HBO Documentary Films. It will be released on HBO in 2022 and be available for hosting special screenings. ...more
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THE JANES (documentary) discussion with Heather Booth and filmmakers, Tia Lessin & Emma Pildes
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2022Feb 8
Heather Booth, a key founder of the JANE COLLECTIVE, and Tia Lessin & Emma Pildes, film co-directors, share their experiences, answer questions, and discuss the future of reproductive freedom. In the spring of 1972, police raided an apartment on the South Side of Chicago. Seven women were arrested and charged. The accused were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds, and safe houses to protect their identities and their work, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions. They called themselves Jane. Co-directors and Sundance Film Festival alumni Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes unearth this timely story to demonstrate how the fight for safe and legal abortions was, and continues to be, an uncertain and perilous undertaking. Electrifying archival footage of Chicago in the late ’60s and early ’70s, coupled with affectingly honest interviews with the Janes themselves, brings to life the city and its spirit of revolution in that historic moment. THE JANES is produced by HBO Documentary Films. It will be released on HBO in 2022 and be available for hosting special screenings.

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Nancy Blachman

39 subscribers