FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN, Parts 5 & 6

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 final episodes:

Chapter Five: WALKING AWAY FROM THE WRECK
The secret of male power…
South Africa (Johannesburg, Capetown),
Pakistan (Islamabad & Afghanistan Border),
Somali Exiles in England (Manchester & Sheffield)
Arriving in South Africa to teach, Jen finds her Lover separated from his wife. Can Jennifer and her Lover finally be together? She leaves briefly for Pakistan to meet women struggling against their society’s male domination. Returning to Africa to teach again, Jen visits her girlfriend Theresa and they dig deep about the repercussions of childhood sexual abuse. Again, Jen must fly to England to meet Amina, a Somali fighting FGM. When she returns to Africa, she discovers something about her Lover she never saw before…

Chapter Six: BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER
Female Life Backwards: New Technology for the “new woman”
USA (NYC, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Wyoming, Florida)
Patrick and Jen renew their relationship and they realize that time is running out to have a child. They decide to try IVF -- In Vitro Fertilization. With Patrick in Zurich, Jen rushes into IVF in New York with the help of her close girlfriends. Finally, Patrick arrives for the big day of retrieval and implantation. But suddenly Jen’s Gram is hospitalized. As her mother, aunt and her gather around her dying grandmother, Jen begins to see the three women who raised her differently – and the result changes her life forever…

At the series end, all the main characters are revisited in an epilogue with some surprising twists.

About the filmmaker
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.