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"Naked on the Inside" is a film documenting several very different people and how they feel about their bodies. Shirley Sheffield is a friend and she is featured as "the fat chick". When she was short one person for the Padded Lilies (a synchronized swim group of fat women she is involved in), she asked me to fill in for the film shoot. I'd never worked with them before, but what the heck, I like to dance, I like water, how hard could it be. For almost 3 hours, we danced, dived, swirled and swam underwater with big smiles on our face towards the camera man in scuba gear. It turns out being that happy, that water logged and that active for that long was hard, but fun.
I'm not sending you this because I'm in the film (for about 10 seconds); I'm sending this because it has some pretty amazing interviews. There is a dancer in England born without legs. I wish they showed more of his dancing, because I really liked what I saw. There is a former model recovering from years of eating disorders. There is a women with breast cancer and the choices she makes. There is an ex-gang member living with his history of violence that shows on his scared and gang tattooed body. There is a transgender man living undercover in Japan, teaching English in a Christian school. And the common thread is how they live in the body they have right now.
For those of you with ShowTime, it will be on tomorrow, Aug. 6. In the Bay Area, it is on at 10 pm. It is also available through the link below - which I hope works for everyone. Warning: it is a big file at 80 minutes long. If you don't have a fast connection it will take a while.
(PS: the scene with Shirley modeling in a nude figure drawing class was shot at Studio One, where I use to work.)
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/595114643/b68d31e485eff
I'm not sending you this because I'm in the film (for about 10 seconds); I'm sending this because it has some pretty amazing interviews. There is a dancer in England born without legs. I wish they showed more of his dancing, because I really liked what I saw. There is a former model recovering from years of eating disorders. There is a women with breast cancer and the choices she makes. There is an ex-gang member living with his history of violence that shows on his scared and gang tattooed body. There is a transgender man living undercover in Japan, teaching English in a Christian school. And the common thread is how they live in the body they have right now.
For those of you with ShowTime, it will be on tomorrow, Aug. 6. In the Bay Area, it is on at 10 pm. It is also available through the link below - which I hope works for everyone. Warning: it is a big file at 80 minutes long. If you don't have a fast connection it will take a while.
(PS: the scene with Shirley modeling in a nude figure drawing class was shot at Studio One, where I use to work.)
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/595114643/b68d31e485eff
