Umberto Eco, Rose Styron Literary Docs; ‘Every Body’ On Intersex Experience; Catherine Hardwicke’s ‘Prisoner’s Daughter’ – Specialty Preview
deadline.comA trio of docs and a wider-than-usual run for a Vertical Entertainment thriller populate a specialty weekend with fewer new openings as theaters stick with Asteroid City and devote screens to Indiana Jones and Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken.
Call it jittery Friday as the indie community like the rest of Hollywood awaits news from SAG-AFTRA as the guild’s contract is set to expire tonight. Opening: Julie Cohen’s documentary Every Body from Focus Features arrives on 250+ screens.
Produced in partnership with NBC Studios, the exploration of the intersex experience through personal stories premiered at Tribeca last month. (Focus and NBC, both part of Comcast’s NBCUniversal, previously collaborated on the 2020 documentary The Way I See It.) This film follows three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthood after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and, instead, came out as their authentic selves.
Actor and screenwriter River Gallo, political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel, and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries.
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