THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE
MON, 12/4, 5:30pm, 116 min BAY STREET THEATER
Director: Nicole Newnham
Producers: R.J. Cutler, Kimberley Ferdinando, Nicole Newnham, Molly O’Brien, Trevor Smith, Elise Pearlstein
Editor: Eileen Meyer
Cinematographer: Rose Bush
Shere Hite's 1976 bestselling book The Hite Report liberated the female orgasm by revealing the most private experiences of thousands of anonymous survey respondents. Her findings rocked the American establishment and presaged current conversations about gender and sexuality. So why did Shere Hite disappear from public view in the decades before her death in 2020?
Nicole Newnham is an American documentary film producer, writer, and director known for the Oscar- nominated movie Crip Camp which she co-directed and produced with James LeBrecht, and the multiple- Emmy-nominated film The Rape of Europa.