Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
Defining Womanhood
Award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Fox’s film, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman, takes viewers on a trip to NY, South Africa, Germany, England, Pakistan, India and 12 other countries, inviting them into the intimate spaces inhabited by the women she meets. When Fox decided to make Flying, she was trying to understand herself and the choices she had made as a woman. She wanted to understand how other women were feeling. She realized that women speak differently from men, especially when brought together. Beyond that, Fox was herself a seemingly free woman: she was unmarried, without children ,and in her 40s. So different from many of her counterparts, this left her wondering what her womanhood meant—wasn't she supposed to be married? And what is the universal experience of not just sharing stories but understanding what it means to be a woman? Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman attempts to answer that question.
