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Is It Hot in Here? A Film About Menopause
198637 min 57 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Laura AlperHaida Paul
Production: Jennifer TorranceJohn Taylor
Script: Laura Alper
With humour sometimes tinged with ruefulness, a group of women discusses menopause, sexuality, and how it feels to be aging in a society consecrated to youth. The film also examines how the medical profession is influenced by the pharmaceutical industry's advertising, and underscores the need for women to become educated health consumers.
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Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Menopause
- Health and Medicine > Sexuality and ReproductionWomen
- Women > Sexuality and Reproduction
Credits
- director
- Laura Alper
- Haida Paul
- producer
- Jennifer Torrance
- executive producer
- John Taylor
- script
- Laura Alper
- cinematography
- Nina Wisnicki
- Josephine Massarella
- graphic animation
- Erik Erikson
- sound
- Peg Campbell
- Lorna Rasmussen
- editing
- Haida Paul
- sound editing
- Jill Haras
- re-recording
- Barry P. Jones
- narrator
- Valerie McNicol