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, sexuality, and bodily autonomy. So how did Shere Hite disappear?
Direction
Newnham weaves mystery into biography—this plays like true crime for erased history.
Writing
Dakota Johnson's voice work makes Hite's words intimate and urgently contemporary.
Editing
Brilliant archival collage showing how media constructed then destroyed a public woman.
Director
Nicole Newnham
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