Anne Alvergue

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Anne Alvergue is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor in the greater New York area. Anne received a Bachelor’s Degree from UC Berkeley and a Master’s Degree in Documentary Film from Stanford University. Her editing credits include "Love, Gilda", "Body Parts", "The Business of Birth Control", and "Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn", nominated for Outstanding Editing by Cinema Eye Honors. Her films have screened at film festivals and galleries worldwide, including most recently "The Martha Mitchell Effect", which screened at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and is now on Netflix, nominated for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 95th Academy Awards.

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Sex on Screen

Explores the process of creating sex scenes in Hollywood, the toll on those involved in filming them, and the impact such images have on women and girls in the real world. The film features candid interviews with actors and creators, including Jane Fonda, Rosanna Arquette, Joey Soloway, Angela Robinson, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Alexandra Billings, Emily Meade and David Simon, and highlights the voices of women who have spoken out against abusive behaviour on set and were punished for it.

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2023

Body Parts

An eye-opening investigation into the making of Hollywood sex scenes, shedding light on the real-life experiences behind classic scenes of cinema and tracing the legacy of exploitation of women in the entertainment industry.

6.5

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2022

The Martha Mitchell Effect

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.

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2022

The Martha Mitchell Effect

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2022

The Business of Birth Control

There can be no real gender justice without an unpacking of the power structures surrounding the reproductive health industry complex—and of the choices that the market pushes on women. Abby Epstein’s latest documentary highlights the dark history of eugenics and underfunded research that the birth control pill, often heralded as a feminist turning point in the history of reproductive rights, hides within itself.

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2021

Container

A strong friendship is formed between five unaccompanied refugee boys who live inside a shipping container in a refugee camp in Greece.

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2020

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s top counsel during investigations into Communist activities in the 1950s, Cohn is also known for being Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, fixer and mentor.

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2019

Love, Gilda

Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonies from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an icon on Saturday Night Live.

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2018

Samantha’s Amazing Acrocats

Samantha Martin has been training animals since she was a kid. Spurred by a midlife crisis to quit her day job, she creates The Amazing Acrocats, a traveling cat circus. But driving around in an undependable RV full of moody felines isn’t as glamorous – or lucrative – as it sounds. As debt mounts, and success seems elusive, how long can Samantha hold out for circus stardom?

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2017

That Way Madness Lies...

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony of his sanity, his iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of an untreated schizophrenic.

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2017

Twelve Years

This documentary, chronicles the twelve-year production of Boyhood (2014) and features on-set footage and interviews with cast and crew.

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2015

Making Sweetie

Stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston recall their work in Jane Campion's 1989 film 'Sweetie'.

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2006

The Making of 'Harlan County U.S.A.'

This documentary features new interviews with producer-director Barbara Kopple, cinematographers Hart Perry and Kevin Keating, associate director Anne Lewis, and three people featured in HARLAN COUNTY USA: United Mine Workers organizer Houston Elmore, miner Jerry Johnson, and strike activist Bessie Parker.

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2006