Select interview cuts and the full feature from the BITE ME Film Festival 2011 in Toronto. The film festival took place from July 8-10 2011 at the NFB in downtown Toronto.
"BITE ME! Is a non profit arts, culture, media literacy and education organization. Its mission is to advance the publicâs understanding of critical social justice issues pertaining to self discovery & identity through the body, representations and interpretations of body perceptions and body images. BITE ME! explores, challenges and redefines the contested âbody beautifulâ wrapped in our experiences of the provocative and the every day. Join us for a 3-day exploration of body and identity stories from near and farâstories set to challenge the limits of traditional body image dialogue by addressing multiple imagesâbody images and experiences informed by diverse race, religious and cultural backgrounds, genders, sexualities, classes, ages, abilities, geographies and histories among other social identifiers. " (bitemefilmfest.com)
Recorded and edited by Sarah Luca and Kayon Vaz for Womyns Word at CHRY 105.5FM