FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN, Parts 1 & 2

Never before in our collective human history have so many women had such autonomy to construct a life of their own creation. Yet, the terrain is still rocky and 'choice' does not necessarily bring happiness, let alone freedom. Meanwhile, old models of femaleness still haunt women everywhere.

In tonight's episodes:

Chapter One: NO FEAR OF FLYING
Living the Free Life…
USA (NYC, Wyoming), Lapland, South Africa (Capetown)
Meet Jennifer and her female friends, all in different predicaments: L’dawn is going through a seven-year divorce; Mindy is broken up with her rock-star boyfriend (although they still have sex); and Pat Cisarano, a blues singer, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Jen herself spends a lot of time traveling the world for work: she is free and “single” and struggling with “commitment phobia”. She has a secret married lover in South Africa but decides to take a new boyfriend – Patrick, a Swiss man. What is this strange modern life all are living?

Chapter Two: TEST PILOTING
TICK TOCK The Biological Clock… The Single Woman
USA (NYC, Wyoming, Philadelphia), Britain (London), France (Paris),
South Africa (Johannesburg, Capetown)
Jennifer’s biological clock rings an alarm. Jennifer fought for sexual freedom her whole life in lieu of family and security, but now wonders if she missed some essential female experience? No matter how free she thinks she is, she can’t shake the message she was raised with: that women need a husband to have children. Jen takes off around the globe to see how women from other cultures are dealing with the issue. She decides enough is enough: she will stop using birth control with her two men and let fate decide…

Read about tomorrow night's Chapters 3 & 4

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Jennifer Fox is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning director, producer, camera woman and educator who has been involved in countless documentaries over the last 25 years. Her first film, BEIRUT: THE LAST HOME MOVIE was broadcast in 20 countries and won seven international awards. She directed the groundbreaking ten-hour PBS television series AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, which received a Gracie Award for Best Television Series and was named ”One of the Top Ten Television Series of 1999” by The New York Times and five others major American papers. Her current work, the cutting edge six-part film, FLYING CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN was made through a unique Danish-American co-production and was funded by the Danish Film Institute, TV-2 Denmark, BBC, ARTE, YLE-1, SBS, SVT, ICON & Humanist Channels Netherlands and HBO -- and was awarded a prestigious Creative Capital Grant. She has executive-produced and consulted on many more documentaries."