My Name Is Andrea

2022
1h 30m

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My Name Is Andrea is a hybrid documentary drama based on the life of writer, Andrea Dworkin who decades before #MeToo called out sexism with revolutionary flair. With this film, the viewer i... Read allMy Name Is Andrea is a hybrid documentary drama based on the life of writer, Andrea Dworkin who decades before #MeToo called out sexism with revolutionary flair. With this film, the viewer is invited to reconsider the legacy of one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th ce... Read allMy Name Is Andrea is a hybrid documentary drama based on the life of writer, Andrea Dworkin who decades before #MeToo called out sexism with revolutionary flair. With this film, the viewer is invited to reconsider the legacy of one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th century. Shaped by the values of justice and equality learnt from the civil rights movement ... Read all

Director
- Pratibha Parmar
Writers
- Andrea Dworkin
- Pratibha Parmar
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Pratibha Parmar
Writers
- Andrea Dworkin
- Pratibha Parmar
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

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User reviews9

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10michael_lumpkin

A Powerful and Important Work

One of the best docs I've seen this year-an incredible achievement. Dworkin's story is not an easy one to tell, and Parmar delivers a powerful, engaging, complex and masterful look at the author's life, work and activism. Now more than ever, the world needs MY NAME IS ANDREA.

10sharonwoodsf

Astonishing Achievement!

I attended the San Francisco screening and left amazed. My Name is Andrea is truly impressive. You attempted an audacious approach and you more than pulled it off. The film is brilliant. Several of the dramatized scenes are quite beautiful, and you struck the right balance between elliptical and explicit images. In addition, you didn't shy away from controversies. And along with the drama and tragedy, you captured her sense of humor!

10connie-141

An Emotional Tour de Force

"My Name is Andrea is a wonderful and powerful film. It does such an extraordinary job of capturing Andrea 's life experiences that transformed into her written words. It is an emotional tour de force. And the directing of the actresses is flawless! What a supreme achievement. Huge congratulations for such deep and profound film. Andrea's voice shall now continue to be heard."

10movableone

Invaluable insight

Wow.

Pratibha Parmar's biographical film provides an engaging, revelatory, and deeply moving portrait of Andrea Dworkin's life and work. Whether you know her writing or not, I highly recommend this remarkably well crafted movie for the insight it provides on a true American philosopher and political activist.

MY NAME IS ANDREA is crucial to understanding the contributions of this author's writing to our understanding of social relationships and the problems created by the sexualization of violence. Her understandable outrage and eloquent, moving talks are all the more relevant int today's world,

10penny-29355

A MUST See!!

Hats off to the filmmakers on the brilliant new film "MY NAME IS ANDREA" -- about the powerful activist/writer Andrea Dworkin. I was lucky enough to get to see it on the big screen, at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. This is a film about misogyny, a film about violence against women - and it's a compelling, complicated, even tender portrait of Dworkin. I found it totally gripping. The director's creative genius comes through in the moving and artful (non-linear) way she weaves it together - using only words actually spoken or written by Dworkin - including both archival footage, but also stunningly re-created scenes with amazing actresses of different generations - Ashley Judd, Amandla Stenberg, Soko, Andrea Riseborough, and Christine Lahti. Everyone MUST see it!