Body Parts

2022 • 86’ • USA

An extensive cast of Hollywood insiders take us on an eye-opening journey through some of the most iconic sex scenes in movie history, tracing the legacy of exploitation of women in the entertainment industry and revealing what really goes on behind the camera to create on-screen intimacy. With powerful contributions from Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette and many more, BODY PARTS captures an extraordinary moment of change for the film industry and celebrates the women who are boldly leading the way.

Director:
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Producer:
Helen Hood Scheer

  • News & Documentary [Nominated]
    — Emmy Awards 2023

    Tribeca 2022 [World Premiere]
    Deauville American Film Festival 2022
    Sidewalk Film Festival 2022
    Edmonton International Film Festival 2022
    Mill Valley Film Festival 2022
    Buffalo International Film Festival 2022
    Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival 2022
    Film Fest Ghent 2022
    Double Exposure Festival 2022
    NHdocs: the New Haven Documentary Film Festival 2022
    Martha's Vineyard Women's Film Festival 2022
    Santa Fe International Film Festival 2022
    Ji.Hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2022
    Brisbane International Film Festival 2022
    AFI Film Festival 2022
    St. Louis International Film Festival 2022
    QDoc Film Festival 2022
    Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival 2022
    Cucalorus Film Festival 2022
    Palm Springs Film Festival 2023
    Documentary Film Festival DOK
    Oxford Film Festival 2023
    Athena Film Festival 2023
    EPOS Art Film Festival 2023
    International Film Festival Mons 2023
    CPH:DOX 2023
    Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival 2023
    San Luis Obispo International Film Festival 2023
    Millenium Docs Against Gravity 2023
    Mendocino Film Festival 2023
    Sofia DocuMental Film Festival 2023
    Contemporanea International Film Festival 2024
    Bucharest Feminist Film Festival 2024

Filmmaker’s Biography

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan is an Associate Professor at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television where she heads the MFA Directing Documentary concentration. Her most recent short film ÁGUILAS 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 Kill, Le Tigre), the film garnered numerous awards, and premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Kristy’s work has been funded by ITVS, the Sundance Institute, Fork Films, the International Documentary Association, Latino Public Broadcasting, and California Humanities.