On Beauty

Synopsis: Documentary short about challenging norms and redefining beauty. ON BEAUTY follows fashion photographer Rick Guidotti, who left the fashion world when he grew frustrated with having to work within the restrictive parameters of the industry’s standard of beauty. After a chance encounter with a young woman who had the genetic condition albinism, Rick re-focused his lens on those too often relegated to the shadows to change the way we see and experience beauty. At the centre of ON BEAUTY are two of Rick’s photo subjects: Sarah and Jayne. In eighth grade Sarah left public school because she was bullied so harshly for the birthmark on her face and brain. Jayne lives with albinism in Eastern Africa where society is blind to her unique health and safety needs and where witch doctors hunt people with her condition to sell their body parts. We follow Rick as he uses his camera to challenge convention and media’s narrow scope of with the help of two extraordinary women.
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2015
Year of production: 2014
Documentation: Downloadable educator’s resource pack from company website.
Subjects: Social Studies; Women’s studies
Keywords: body image; facial disfigurement; bullying; beauty; East Africa

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Notes: US company distributing independent films by and about women. The collection consists of more than 500 documentary, experimental, animation, dramatic and mixed-genre titles. The films and videotapes represent a diversity of styles, subjects and perspectives in women’s lives.

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