Kathy Kiefer

Kathy Kiefer is a Cultural Anthropologist, award winning filmmaker, writer and photographer. She has produced three feature length documentaries, and a dozen short programs and commercials. In the recent (March 2007) International Documentary Film Challenge, Kathy directed a 4-minute short doc featuring Mona Contreras, a tranny Mexican-American whose struggle for peace of mind living off-the-beaten-path in rural Beverly, Washington, is rewarded by her own true spirit. Kathy is a partner in JACOL Filmworks, LLC, a video production company specializing in legacy documentaries, corporate and promotional videos.

Kathy will lead the following program/discussion beginning with the presentation of her award-winnig film:

Boobalogues: Our Breasts, Our Lives

Boobalogues: Our Breasts, Our Lives, is a 55-minute documentary exploring breast stories. The film portrays women of different ages and ethnic backgrounds sharing stories about breast-feeding, breast implants, bras, mammograms, cancer and breast reduction. With grace and humor, women candidly share their experiences, impressions and their deepest feelings about mammae.

For more information about the film, go to http://www.boobalogues.com

Boobalogues: Discussion

After the presentation of the film, Kathy will guide a general discussion about breasts, but expect much more. Her goal was to produce a film that would invite discussion about breasts: why we want them, what to do with them when we get them, and what they mean in our lives. The discussion may cover a range of topics, including what breasts mean to you, what they mean to different societies, who gets to define what they mean, how and when they are shown or permitted to be shown, and much more.