PARACHUTE (SXSW2023)- Review by Diane Carson

When director Brittany Snow introduced the SXSW world premiere of her directorial debut film Parachute, she acknowledged its autobiographical elements. As co-writer, along with Becca Gleason, Snow delivers an honest representation of what too many women in our appearance obsessed society find impossible to avoid; that is, comparison to other women perceived always as more perfect resulting in harmful emotional and physical denigration of self, too often leading to eating disorders.

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AWFJ Movie of the Week, July 13-19: THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT

Opening July 17, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is The Stanford Prison Experiment, the dramatisation of the real-life events of 1971 when a Stanford professor cast his students in the roles of guards and prisoners to examine the ritual abuse in the prison system. Read on…

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