Sluts: The Documentary

Directed by Andrea Dorfman

Canada, 2005 (documentary, 45 minutes, colour, English)

Film Description:
"High school can often be a cruel place. Divisions are drawn between all types of kids. Some are jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, drama geeks and Goths. But there is one person who exists outside the cliques, who is never welcomed into any group. She is the high school slut. The girl with the 'reputation'. We travel across North America, beyond the rumors, catcalls and graffiti, to find out who high school Sluts really are and where they are now."
-- Arcadia Entertainment (source)

Film Credits (partial):
Written by:	John Wesley Chisholm, Andrea Dorfman
Produced by:	John Wesley Chisholm, Colin MacKenzie
Participants:	Ron Jeremy, Peaches, Dan Savage, Annie Sprinkle
Cinematography:	Stéphanie Anne Weber Biron
Film Editing:	Angela Baker, Matt Trecartin
Production Company:	Arcadia Entertainment

(sources)

Quote by the Director

"At this point, I can't believe in the slut. I've talked to girls who have written me 'I'm the slut of my class and I don't know why because I'm sweet 16 and I've never been kissed.' When I hear things like that, it's absurd. And I think that girls who are expressing sexuality should have a right to."
-- Andrea Dorfman (source)

Quotes about Sluts: The Documentary

"Toronto filmmaker Andrea Dorfman completed a documentary called [Sluts] a year ago in which 10 females talk about having been labelled the slut of their class. 'Literally, the 15-year-old had the same story as the 85-year-old,' says Dorfman. The film's older subjects, 'carried (the insult) around with them their whole lives. It affected their self-confidence, their careers, their self-esteem.' Dorfman, 38, says a girl who's branded a 'slut' in gossip—and she adds it's usually females who use the word against other females, competing for the attention of the still-more-powerful male—'is the receptacle of everybody's anxiety about sex.'"
-- Patricia Hluchy (source)

"Director Andrea Dorfman put out ads in newspapers across the country that asked: 'Are you the high-school slut?' More than 120 women answered, and she talked to women and girls from coast to coast. Eight of those interviews are used in Sluts: The Documentary, which concludes the girls whispered about didn't deserve their bad reputations."
-- Marilyn Smulders (source)

Bibliography for Sluts: The Documentary

Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites

Dedyna, Katherine. "Filmmaker searching for high school 'sluts': Label is 'a complete fabrication'. Documentary will probably show that girls are targeted in the same ways over and over." Montreal Gazette, April 14, 2004.
Dedyna, Katherine. "The so-called slut: Is there still such a thing as slutty behaviour?" Edmonton Journal, April 16, 2004.
Smulders, Marilyn. "Documentary tells heartbreaking stories of 'sluts'." Halifax Daily News, September 23, 2005.

Web Sites about Sluts: The Documentary

"IMDb: Sluts: The Documentary." Internet Movie Database, Inc. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0849473/reference.