Women in Love

production crew

Karen Everett, Producer, Director, Camera, Editor:
San Francisco independent filmmaker Karen Everett has produced, directed and edited several documentaries about queer culture. Her PBS documentary I SHALL NOT BE REMOVIED: THE LIFE OF MARLON RIGGS (1996) won the Silver Apple Award from the National Educational Media Association and was nominated for a Best Documentary Award from the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. MY FEMME DIVINE (1999), a personal documentary about butch/femme identity, won the San Diego LGBT Director's Award. FRAMING LESBIAN FASHION (1992) was nominated for best new documentary by the American Film Institute and aired on public television. Her short film SWEET BOY (2001) explores transgender issues and is distributed by Canadian filmmakers. Everett teaches in the documentary film program at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, where she received her master's degree.

Deborah Hoffmann, Editing Consultant
Hoffman has edited numerous internationally acclaimed documentaries on a wide range of sensitive and challenging topics. She received a National Emmy for editing THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK, which won an Academy Award. Marlon Riggs' video COLOR ADJUSTMENT, which she edited, received a Peabody and an International Documentary Association Award. She has also produced LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, which was nominated for an Academy Award, and COMPLAINTS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER, which has received 30 international awards, including an Academy Award nomination, an Emmy, a Peabody and a duPont-Columbia.

Steve Most, Writer
has scripted and consulted on several award-winning films including BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES, LAS MADRES: THE MOTHERS OF PLAZA DE MAYO, and THE POWER OF CHOICE, an eleven-part PBS series.

cast

Karen Everett
Karen Everett is the Producer, Director, Editor, and Cinematographer of WOMEN IN LOVE and the film‘s protagonist.

Phyllis Christopher
Phyllis Christopher is one of North America‘s leading photographers of lesbian erotica. Christopher‘s work has been published worldwide in books and periodicals such as QUIM, ON OUR BACKS, CUPIDO and PHOTO SEX: FINE ART SEXUAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMES OF AGE. She has been featured on HBO‘s SEXBITES, Canadian Television‘s SEX TV, and the documentary film EROTICA: A JOURNEY INTO FEMALE SEXUALITY. She recently completed a retrospective DVD of her work.

Erin Farrell
Erin Farrell is currently studying for a masters in social work and is working in the development department of a San Francisco homeless shelter for Latino men. She met her Karen Everett in 2000 and they began to explore polyamory together. Farrell, deeply committed to social justice, is the former director of PAWS, an AIDS support service in San Francisco.

Shar Rednour
Shar Rednour is a writer, actor and co-owner of S.I.R. Video Productions, an all woman company that produces award-winning lesbian erotic videos and educational films about sexuality. Rednour and her longtime partner Jackie Strano recently moved from San Francisco to Santa Cruz where they are raising a newly adopted baby boy. Rednour and Strano have been featured and interviewed on HBO, Channel 4 in the UK, KRON-TV in San Francisco, as well as in several national publications.

Jackie Strano
Jackie Strano is a video producer and the lead singer of the band The Hail Marys. With her partner Shar Rednour, Strano has produced several films about sexuality. Strano and Rednour's most recent film, HEALING SEX: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SEXUAL WHOLENESS, explores the work of sex educator Staci Haines. Strano moved to San Francisco in the late 1980‘s, when she met her friends Karen Everett and Phyllis Christopher on the set of an erotic lesbian film.

Annika Dukes
Annika Dukes met Karen Everett in 1996 and became lovers for three years. Dukes is currently living with her boyfriend in Berkeley and works as an office manager for an architectural firm. Dukes received a B.A. from Mills College in Oakland.