Orgasm Inc. is an exhilarating doc that takes a hard-hitting but humorous look at pharmaceutical companies’ quest to create so-called female Viagra. (Read my review here.)
Documentarian Liz Canner crafted Orgasm Inc. over a nine-year span, and provides a uniquely insider perspective, as she was employed at a pharmaceutical companies during the clinical trials for their proposed female Viagra drug. Though she set out to make a documentary about female pleasure, she found herself compelled to capture the pharma industry’s haste (and recklessness) once they began marketing an incredibly ambiguous affliction: Fsd, Female Sexual Dysfunction. Before her eyes, Canner saw a disease invented and marketed to the media by the pharma companies who were racing for a quick-fix cure and its accompanying windfall.
I recently sat down with Canner and discussed her approach to Orgasm Inc., the truth behind the hype, as well as some of the film’s hairier revelations.
Documentarian Liz Canner crafted Orgasm Inc. over a nine-year span, and provides a uniquely insider perspective, as she was employed at a pharmaceutical companies during the clinical trials for their proposed female Viagra drug. Though she set out to make a documentary about female pleasure, she found herself compelled to capture the pharma industry’s haste (and recklessness) once they began marketing an incredibly ambiguous affliction: Fsd, Female Sexual Dysfunction. Before her eyes, Canner saw a disease invented and marketed to the media by the pharma companies who were racing for a quick-fix cure and its accompanying windfall.
I recently sat down with Canner and discussed her approach to Orgasm Inc., the truth behind the hype, as well as some of the film’s hairier revelations.
- 2/11/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
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