Therese Shechter
Therese Shechter is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder of the production company Trixie Films. Over the past 20 years, she's created a body of work that fuses humor, activism, and personal storytelling to explore the expectations around women’s roles and identities.
Therese’s most recent film MY SO-CALLED SELFISH LIFE, is a revolutionary documentary about one of our greatest social taboos: choosing not to become a mother. The film is the third in her series of documentaries investigating all that is sacred about womanhood, including I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINIST and HOW TO LOSE YOUR VIRGINITY.
Her documentaries have screened on television, streamed online, and appeared in film festivals from Rio de Janeiro to Istanbul to Seoul. Her work is in the collections of hundreds of universities, non-profits, and libraries, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, Elle, and Ms. Magazine, among others. (08/07)
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How to Lose Your Virginity
A film by Therese Shechter, 2013, 66 min, Color
Female virginity. The US government has spent 1.5 billion dollars promoting it. It has fetched $750,000 at auction. There is no official medical definition for it. And 50 years after the sexual revolution, it continues to define young women’s morality and self-worth. This hilarious, eye-opening, occasionally alarming documentary uses the filmmaker’s own path out of…
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I Was a Teenage Feminist
A film by Therese Shechter, 2005, 62 min, Color
Why is it that some young, independent, progressive women in today's society feel uncomfortable identifying with the F-word? Join filmmaker Therese Shechter as she takes a funny, moving and very personal journey into the heart of feminism. Armed with a video camera and an irreverent sense of humor, Shechter talks with feminist superstars, rowdy frat…
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