Hats off to the filmmakers on the brilliant new film "MY NAME IS ANDREA" -- about the powerful activist/writer Andrea Dworkin. I was lucky enough to get to see it on the big screen, at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. This is a film about misogyny, a film about violence against women - and it's a compelling, complicated, even tender portrait of Dworkin. I found it totally gripping. The director's creative genius comes through in the moving and artful (non-linear) way she weaves it together - using only words actually spoken or written by Dworkin - including both archival footage, but also stunningly re-created scenes with amazing actresses of different generations - Ashley Judd, Amandla Stenberg, Soko, Andrea Riseborough, and Christine Lahti. Everyone MUST see it!
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