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Documentary explores post-Roe v. Wade abortion access

As the country acknowledges the possibility that some states will severely curtail abortion rights — or even that a national abortion ban could eventually come into play in a Republican-led Senate — a new documentary, “Abortion: Add to Cart,” explores how telehealth technology is facilitating new routes for people seeking safe abortions. “When people talk about coat hangers and the self-managed abortions that happened pre-Roe, not many of them realize that there are more options out there now that look different from that,” said Jessica Sarah Flaum, the film’s director and producer. “The Internet and abortion pills have given us way more opportunities to to self-manage abortions. My goal is to give people that information so that if it’s a service they seek, they have the tools to access it.”

‘Abortion: Add to Cart’ Envisions a Future for Safe Self-Managed Abortion Post-Roe

A new film about self-managed abortion with pills explains how people in the U.S. are finding abortion pills online and using them safely on their own. Accessible, informative and engaging, Abortion: Add to Cart provides a roadmap for how people can have safe abortions post-Roe—even in states that ban abortion. The film is directed by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Jessica Sarah Flaum and produced by Geneva Faye, who released it shortly after the Supreme Court draft opinion overruling constitutional abortion rights established close to fifty years ago in Roe v. Wade.

Luiz Guzmán Joins Cast Of Jacquelyn Quinones’ Indie ‘Miles Away’

Miles Away is a dramedy produced by Quinones that explores a day in the life of a rideshare driver, with short vignettes of passengers all feeding into the story of the driver learning to deal with no money, a thankless job and a sister with mental illness.

Andre Royo (The Spectacular Now), Noel Gugliemi (The Fast and The Furious), Alberto Frezza (Station 19), Norma Maldonado (Jane the Virgin), Henri Esteve (Grown-ish), Jennifer Bartels (American Woman), Eddie Martinez (The Sinner), Jessica Sarah Flaum (The Tale), Marylin Camacho (Never and Again) and Charo Toledo (East Los High) round out the cast of the Puerto Rican filmmaker’s feature directorial debut, in which she also appears.

Let's Scare Julie Review: One-Shot Haunted Teen Horror-thriller Will Make You Sweat

“The continuous one-take shot forces this talented young cast to improvise, synchronize fully with one another, and conjure what appears like genuine emotion; thus leading the crew to seem like a real group of teenage friends. A lack of cuts would expose the absence of chemistry, however, Johnson, May, A'zion, Sorenson, and Flaum are visibly excellent playing off one another. The performances are brilliant and real.”

Let's Scare Julie | Movie Review | Real-time Horror Film | Spoiler-free

“Johnson and Flaum really shine when the movie does get going.”

“I will happily give the cast here a lot of credit. I don’t know anybody in this movie but I thought they all did a really good job. They make the first act sort of slumber party feel really genuine and natural. You buy that these girls as people who have been friends for a very long time”

10 Most Anticipated Horror Movies Of Fall 2020:

#7 Let’s Scare Julie

“Written and directed by Judd Cremata, Let's Scare Julie traces a gaggle of mean teenage girls who set out to frighten their shut-in neighbor by conducting a series of mortifying pranks. However, when some of the girls fail to return home from the pranks they play next door, humor turns to horror in a flash.

The film marks Cremata's feature film debut after two decades spent directing documentary television series. Also known as Let's Scare Jessica To Death, the film stars Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Isabel May, Odessa A'Zion, Brooke Sorensen, Jessica Sarah Flaum, and Dakota Baccelli.”

Film News RoundUp:

“Shout! Studio has acquired North American rights to teen horror thriller “Let’s Scare Julie” from Blitz Films. Written and directed by Jud Cremata, the cast includes Troy Leigh-Anne Johnson, Isabel May, Odessa A’zion, Brooke Sorenson and Jessica Sarah Flaum.

Caroline Couret-Delègue from Film Seekers will be handling international sales for the film, beginning at the Berlin Film Festival.

‘Let’s Scare Julie’ was filmed in one uninterrupted, continuous take, on a single camera. The story follows a group of teen girls setting out to scare their reclusive new neighbor, but the prank turns to terror when some of them don’t come back.”

How Jud Cremata pulled off a one-shot thriller with “Let’s Scare Julie”:

“The writer-director is full of praise for his young cast, which also includes Jessica Sarah Flaum (The Tale), Brooke Sorenson (Modern Family) and Odessa A’zion (Fam), as well as his dedicated crew. “It’s a great deal of trust that we all put in each other,” Cremata says. “It was like everyone’s hands were on a Ouija board, and we were all spelling out Let’s Scare Julie.”

Film Review: The Tale:

​“Most effective, the retelling begins with one actress, Jessica Sarah Flaum, playing Jenny. Flaum looks closer in age to the teenage actresses who have played Lolita on screen over the years (Sue Lyon, Dominique Swain) than the 12-year-old character Vladimir Nabakov described in his novel. But then Burstyn shows adult Jennifer a photo of her taken that summer, at age 13, and Fox is forced to revise her memory, replaying the scenes with a younger actress…”

The Tale is a Searing Investigation of Past Abuse:

“A halcyon flashback offers her memory of the affair’s origins: A tall, sprightly teenage Jenny (Jessica Sarah Flaum) arrives at her horse trainer, Mrs. G’s (Elizabeth Debicki), house in the country, where she’ll spend the summer. Jenny is struck by Mrs. G’s beauty and immediately takes an interest in her handsome boyfriend, Bill (Jason Ritter), who will also be her running coach for the upcoming months. She flashes him a smile.”

The Tale: Film Review Sundance 2018:

”Indeed, one of Fox's most effective sleights of hand is the way she deploys two young actors in the same role played by Dern as an adult. At first, the adult Fox remembers herself as looking much older (this version played by Jessica Sarah Flaum) than she actually was at the time.”

TV Review: Laura Dern in HBO’s The Tale:

"But “The Tale” makes that crucial moment when Jenny realizes just how young she was land hard by swiftly swapping out the older actor playing her in the initial flashbacks (Jessica Sarah Flaum) for a startlingly younger one (a heartbreaking Isabelle Nélisse). It’s a brilliant device, not least because it underlines just how warped most onscreen depictions of teenagers are when they’re so often played by actors older than their characters."