Trixie Films is delighted to announce that its paradigm-shifting new documentary feature film about childfree women, My So-Called Selfish Life, will be released worldwide for the first time and streamed from 6 - 16 May.
Directed by the award-winning feminist writer/director Therese Shechter, the film is a journey through one of our society's greatest social taboos: choosing not to become a mother, and is the third in a trilogy of documentaries by Shechter dismantling our most sacred ideas about womanhood: from power and 21st century feminism, to sex and virginity, and now motherhood. The film premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2021 to critical acclaim.
My So-Called Selfish Life is unique in the childfree conversation for its intersectional approach to its subject matter, as well as the ways it ties women's personal stories of choosing not to have children to the deeper cultural and political forces that tell us that a woman's greatest value lies in her ability to reproduce. It also incorporates a lot of humour - weaving together everything from Grey's Anatomy clips to speeches from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
