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Clare Major – Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor
Clare Major is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who specializes in handheld observational camerawork and in stories that illuminate the intersection of cultures and the lives of women and girls. Recent cinematography credits include Oscar-shortlisted short doc HOLDING MOSES (2022) and Peabody nominee and Emmy winner BELLY OF THE BEAST (2020). Clare’s short documentary FEAST & SACRIFICE, made in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, was nominated for a Student Academy Award and won a first place College Television Award (a.k.a. Student Emmy). Clare served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal and has walked from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. In 2020 she was named one of DOC NYC's "40 Under 40" filmmakers to watch.
Whitney Bradshaw – Artist, Film Subject, Producer
Whitney Bradshaw is an artist, activist, educator, curator, former social worker and documentary film producer whose practice seeks to empower her subjects while challenging the social systems that marginalize and oppress them. Her work has been shown widely across the United States including solo shows at Atlanta Contemporary, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the DePaul Art Museum, the Epiphany Center for the Arts, Wave Pool Contemporary Art Fulfillment Center, and the 21c Museum Hotel Louisville. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, the DePaul Art Museum, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, Hall Art and Technology Foundation, Agnes Scott College and Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell collect her work, which has been published in Ms. Magazine, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Vogue. In 2023, Bradshaw was named one of NewCity Magazine’s 50 Chicago Artists’ Artists. She is currently the curator at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana.
Jen Rainin & Rivkah Beth Medow – Producers
Frankly Speaking Films is an independent production company led by queer, Oakland-based filmmakers Rivkah Beth Medow and Jen Rainin who produce mesmerizing stories centering strong LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people. FSF values ambitious cinematic projects and social impact, cultivating partnerships and building paths toward social change. Our credits include AHEAD OF THE CURVE (2020, Netflix); the Oscar® shortlisted HOLDING MOSES (2022, The New Yorker); Berlinale Grand Prix winner HUMMINGBIRDS (2023, POV); and QUEER FUTURES Series (2023, Criterion Collection).
Paris Hurley – Composer
Paris Hurley is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and writer living in Philadelphia. She performs and releases records under the name OBJECT AS SUBJECT, a shapeshifting autobiographical exploration questioning the edges of objecthood and obligation as a woman. Paris has contributed to film scores by Clint Mansell (Love Lies Bleeding, 2024) and Anne Nikitin (Little Wing, 2024), and her music is featured in the short documentary OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage. She is the author of 33 MESSAGES: Creative Practice Affirmations and Love Notes from the Great Unknown and shares personal essays about creative practice and motherhood in her weekly online publication, R I T E S.
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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
I began this project after filming Whitney Bradshaw leading an OUTCRY scream session at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2022. OUTCRY, Whitney’s participatory art project, centers on group scream sessions in which Whitney photographs women and non-binary and gender-nonconforming people mid-scream. Those photographs are then presented en masse as a collective act of resistance. During the two hours of that scream session I knew I was witnessing something special. What I saw—a group of students in a small, dark room, crying and laughing as they took turns screaming into Whitney’s lens—left me profoundly moved and creatively inspired.
I connected with OUTCRY on a visceral level. With our present-day political climate, ongoing assaults on women's bodily autonomy, and a lifetime of being told in a thousand ways both explicit and implicit to quiet down—my long-simmering rage feels ready to boil over. Whitney creates a space to quite literally give voice to these emotions that we're told to shove down deep inside and never speak out loud.
While that first day’s footage was destined for a campus press release, I could picture exactly how my own film would look: the camera floating up close as those powerful screams erupted in slow motion. Whitney and I had worked well together that day, navigating our two cameras and safeguarding the experience of the participants, so when I approached her about working together on a short documentary film, she enthusiastically agreed.
Our collaboration has produced a film that both stays true to my artistic vision and also fully represents the depths and complexities with which Whitney has imbued OUTCRY. It explores the transformational power of women’s rage at a time when reproductive rights and bodily autonomy for women and LGBTQ+ people are under attack. As we navigate yet another critical election year, OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage aims to motivate viewers to use their voices to vote for women's rights in 2024—and will live on as a portrait of feminist power in action.
- Clare Major
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