Nice Girls Don’t Ask
Shorts Block 3 - November 1 at 4PM
Synopsis
Nice Girls Don't Ask offers a cautionary tale constructed from “social guidance” films of the 1950s. The film casts a subversive and humorous lens on the rules for female behavior and the renewed favor of “trad wives” in today's political climate.
Runtime: 17 minutes 3 seconds
Content advisory: This film includes depictions or themes of misogyny.
Directed by: Jan Krawitz
Jan’s documentaries have screened at Sundance, The New York Film Festival, SXSW, AFI Docs, Edinburgh, Visions du Réel, Full Frame, and Ann Arbor, among others. Little People was nominated for a national Emmy Award. She has had artist residencies at Yaddo and the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy and was a Fulbright Scholar in Austria in 2022.
Six of her films received national broadcasts on PBS. Big Enough was broadcast in two successive years on P.O.V. and internationally in eighteen countries. Little People, was nominated for a national Emmy Award for “Outstanding Individual Documentary.” Other documentaries include Perfect Strangers (America ReFramed), Mirror Mirror (P.O.V.), In Harm’s Way (Independent Lens), Drive-in Blues, and Styx. She is the recipient of artist residencies at Yaddo and the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy. Jan was a Fulbright Scholar in Austria in 2022 and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She is Professor Emerita at Stanford University where she taught in the MFA Documentary Program for many years.
Nice Girls Don’t Ask
Shorts Block 3 - November 1 at 4PM