Communities of Care: Using Film as a Tool of Reproductive Justice

Communities of Care: Using Film as a Tool of Reproductive Justice

Please join us for a special fundraiser and film screening from the Abortion Clinic Film Collective. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Kristy Guevera-Flanagan, Dr. Gabrielle Goodrick, and other guests. This is a fundraiser for Camelback Family Planning, which is featured in one of the shorts included, As Long as We Can.

This series features the short films made over the past year by members of the nation-wide Abortion Clinic Film Collective—a group of filmmakers organized by filmmaker and UCLA Professor Kristy Guevara-Flanagan.

Each film provides a window into the broad and life-threatening ramifications of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe vs. Wade in 2022 and its devastating legacy for the health and well-being of our country and people. We hear from medical directors and staff, mothers and daughters, criminal defense attorneys and advocates about how their personal and professional lives have been affected post-Dobbs.

Screening:

A Mile and a Half by Raymond Rea

Contractions by Lynne Sachs

As Long As We Can by Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Retracing Our Steps by Kelly Gallagher

The Longest Walk by Đoan Hoàng Curtis

We Are About to Commit a Felony by Sasha Waters

Hemorrhage by Ruth Hayes

Catch Us On The Way Down by Cali M. Banks

has offered exceptional abortion care since its opening in 1999. We are a small medical clinic that focuses on providing the best possible medical care to our patients.

In the series, we hear from medical directors and staff, mothers and daughters, criminal defense attorneys and advocates, about how their personal and professional lives have been affected post-Dobbs. Each portal provides a window into the broad and life-threatening ramifications of that Supreme Court decision and its devastating legacy for the health and well-being of our country and people.

founded Camelback Family Planning in 1999. As Medical Director, she has provided over 22 years of clinical care, leadership, and management skills to allow the clinic to thrive and become a model for safe and compassionate abortion care. Dr. Goodrick’s empathy and compassion are well known to her patients. She is an expert in her field and is continually improving clinical protocols in abortion care.After earning her medical degree from the University of Vermont, she trained in Family Medicine at Phoenix Baptist Hospital, now Abrazo Central. Since the early 1990’s she has been training to do abortions and worked at Planned Parenthood for 5 years before opening her own clinic.Dr. Goodrick is a member of the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and Abortion Care Network. She has an outstanding reputation with health care professionals around the world. She has spoken nationally about the Medical Abortion (Abortion Pill) and was the first provider to dispense the Abortion Pill in the Southwest in November 2000. Her current research focuses on innovations in later abortion care to expand access. Additionally, she believes strongly in educating pro-choice physicians and offers training to future physicians from around the globe. Trainees do not incur any fees for their training.Dr. Goodrick has gathered wonderful women physicians to provide abortion care at the clinic. Dr. Goodrick enjoys all things feline, cooking, knitting and traveling. She has served as Board Chair of Pro-Choice Arizona 501(c)3 from 2013 to 2021.

is a Professor at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television where she heads the MFA Directing Documentary concentration. Her most recent short film Águilas (co-directed with Maite Zubiaurre; SXSW, PBS, The New Yorker), about a group of volunteers who help recover bodies of missing migrants crossing the border, 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 K*ll, Le Tigre), the film garnered numerous awards, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival and was broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens in 2013. Her short, What Happened to Her (2016) explores our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen and premiered at Hot Docs, where it received an honorable mention for best short. Kristy’s work has been funded by ITVS, the Sundance Institute, Fork Films, the International Documentary Association, Latino Public Broadcasting, and California Humanities. Many of her films are currently in educational distribution with Women Make Movies.

Host or Publisher Camelback Family Planning