“Engrossing.”

AWFJ

Body Parts

by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan • 2022 • 86’ • USA

 Credits

Director:
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Producer:
Helen Hood Scheer

An extensive cast of Hollywood insiders take us on an eye-opening journey through some of the most iconic sex scenes in movie history, tracing the legacy of exploitation of women in the entertainment industry and revealing what really goes on behind the camera to create on-screen intimacy. With powerful contributions from Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette and many more, BODY PARTS captures an extraordinary moment of change for the film industry and celebrates the women who are boldly leading the way.

Awards & Festivals

News & Documentary [Nominated]
— Emmy Awards 2023

Tribeca 2022 [World Premiere]
Deauville American Film Festival 2022
Sidewalk Film Festival 2022
Edmonton International Film Festival 2022
Mill Valley Film Festival 2022
Buffalo International Film Festival 2022
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2022
Film Fest Ghent 2022
Double Exposure Festival 2022
NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival 2022
Martha's Vineyard Women's Film Festival 2022
Santa Fe International Film Festival 2022
Ji.Hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2022
Brisbane International Film Festival 2022
AFI Film Festival 2022
St. Louis International Film Festival 2022
QDoc Film Festival 2022
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival 2022
Cucalorus Film Festival 2022
Palm Springs Film Festival 2023
Documentary Film Festival DOK
Oxford Film Festival 2023
Athena Film Festival 2023
EPOS Art Film Festival 2023
International Film Festival Mons 2023
CPH:DOX 2023
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2023
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival 2023
Millenium Docs Against Gravity 2023
Mendocino Film Festival 2023
Sofia DocuMental Film Festival 2023

Filmmaker’s Biography

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television where she heads the MFA Directing Documentary concentration. Her most recent short film ÁGUILAS was short-listed for the 2022 Academy Awards. Kristy has been making award-winning documentary films that focus on gender and representation for over two decades. Her debut feature, GOING ON 13 (co-directed with Dawn Valadez, 2009), covering four years in the lives of four adolescent girls premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS. Her follow-up feature, WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES (2013), traces the evolution of the comic book hero Wonder Woman as a way to reflect on society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. Starring Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, and real-life superheroines such as Gloria Steinem and Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill, Le Tigre), the film garnered numerous awards, and premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Kristy’s work has been funded by ITVS, the Sundance Institute, Fork Films, the International Documentary Association, Latino Public Broadcasting, and California Humanities.