Excerpts from Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
EPISODE 1: Jennifer, NYC (2:14)
The narrator and main character of this epic film, Jennifer is a modern woman who never wanted to be limited by her femaleness, but now finds herself in a crisis over who she is as a woman and why she feels invisible. While juggling her filmmaking career and multi-partner love life, she sets out on a journey and passes her camera with other women to understand what it means to be a woman today.
EPISODE 2: Theresa, Cape Town, South Africa (1:47)
Recently divorced, Theresa finds herself looking for love in all the wrong places. Intimacy is an uphill battle for Theresa, whose childhood sexual abuse left her distrustful of men. Now, she and Jennifer speak candidly about having had abortions and the impact it had on their lives.
EPISODE 3: Paromita, Calcutta, India (2:14)
Paromita is a single woman, civil rights lawyer, the director of a rural grassroots organization, and a vital part of her local community. While Jennifer is in India to visit her, Paromita explains to Jennifer how she came to reject the idea of marriage for her life.
EPISODE 4: Socheata, Phnom Penh, Cambodia (2:03)
During Jennifer’s journey to Cambodia, one of her first stops is the Womyn’s Agenda for Change, a grassroots organization that works to empower Cambodian women in the sex and factory industry. Here Jennifer learns about sexual norms in Cambodia.
EPISODE: 5: Rural women outside Islamabad, Pakistan (3:00)
Jennifer travels to rural Pakistan to meet with women who are participating in a grassroots meeting to try and change the difficult position of women in their community.
EPISODE: 6: Jennifer, NYC (2:48)
After several miscarriages and a fertility wake-up call from her gynecologist, Jennifer and her Swiss boyfriend, Patrick, decide to try having a child through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Because of her age, her time is running out and Jennifer begins the process alone in NYC while Patrick, still in Switzerland, plans to arrive for the final procedure.
