Audience Award Documentary Feature: Jeannette
Description
Take a measure of the Festival’s non-fiction fare that runs the gamut from the personal to the political, the local to the global, and cast your vote for the Documentary Audience Award.
Filmed in striking and intimate vérité, this portrait of competitive bodybuilder and queer single mother Jeannette unfolds as a nuanced story of balancing the relentlessness of daily existence with the realities of living through trauma. In the wake of Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub shooting, Jeannette continues to coach other survivors at the gym while raising her son. Life seems calm again, until Hurricane Maria hits Puerto Rico and Jeannette is thrown back into crisis mode. Skirting headlines to instead focus on the tenderness of healing, Maris Curran (Five Nights in Maine, Festival 2018) returns to SFFILM with the World Premiere of Jeannette.
Maris Curran’s films have shown at Berlinale, TIFF, MoMA, the NY Times Op-Docs, and PBS’s Independent Lens. Among her films are her feature debut, Five Nights in Maine (Festival 2016); and two documentary shorts, The Man Is the Music (2016) and While I Yet Live (2018). She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was a Fulbright Fellow, and is the past recipient of an SFFILM/KRF Filmmaking Grant.
Film Details
Language English, Spanish
Year 2022
Premiere World
Runtime 78
Country USA
Director Maris Curran
Executive Producer Jen Rainin, Rivkah Beth Medow, Penelope Wong, Crystal Gurin
Producer Maris Curran, Jon Coplon
Editor Eduardo Serrano, Katrina Taylor
Cinematographer Jerry Henry
Music Leonardo Heiblum, Jacobo Lieberman
Print Source The Film Collaborativejeffrey@thefilmcollaborative.org http://thefilmcollaborative.org
Closed Captions Closed captions are not available for this screening.
Audio Description Audio description is not available for this screening.
American Sign Language (ASL) Interpretation American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is not currently scheduled for this event. For more information about ASL interpretation at our events, e-mail ADA@SFFilm.org.