Director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and producer Helen Hood Scheer take on a formidable subject for this post-#MeToo, #TimesUp era: the perspective of women actors on the dominance of the male gaze in Hollywood. That gaze, unquestioned for nearly one hundred years, has conditioned popular attitudes toward women, intimate desire, and sex.

Actors talk about their behind-the-scenes experiences disrobing and simulating sex, both in the shooting of the film and once their images are out in theaters across the planet. Actors describe the deep psychological toll these scenes have taken on them at a vulnerable stage in their careers, particularly when they have felt coerced into nudity or unaware of how scenes would be edited.

Guevara-Flanagan and Scheer mix these actor interviews with iconic scenes from popular films across the years, deconstructing what it takes to conjure such scenes. We hear from an intimacy coordinator, who advises actors that there are the three basic sex scenes in film, illuminating how the film industry has managed to narrow our shared vision of what sex looks like, without most of us ever noticing. Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Joey Soloway, Angela Robinson, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Alexandra Billings, Emily Meade, and David Simon are all interviewed on camera.

Some of the most chilling scenes do not overtly involve sex at all, but the casual innuendoes and expectations of male directors in clips from the '60s and '70s, seen through a modern eye. It is in that modern eye and voice, from whistleblowers willing to call out abusive behavior and growing diversity in the ranks of directors and producers, that Guevara-Flanagan and Scheer find hope for a better, less exploitative, way forward.

Following the screening, director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and producer Helen Hood Scheer will be interviewed by Xanthe Scharff, co-founder and CEO of The Fuller Project.