The U.K.’s Espresso Media Intl. has picked up Shannon Cohn’s “Below the Belt,” a documentary executive produced by Hillary Clinton and Rosario Dawson that explores problems in the U.S. healthcare system that disproportionately affect women.
The film, whose executive producers also include actresses Corinne Foxx (“Dollface”) and Mae Whitman (“Good Girls”), premiered on PBS. Espresso Media is handling global sales for the title outside of the U.S. and will present it to buyers at the forthcoming Mipcom in Cannes.
“Below the Belt” examines healthcare problems that overwhelmingly affect women, such as societal taboos, gender bias, misinformed doctors and financial barriers to care, and how millions are effectively silenced.
The film also explores the devastating impact of endometriosis, which affects one in nine women globally and is considered one of the most common diseases that most people have never heard of. Endometriosis causes tissue similar to the...
The film, whose executive producers also include actresses Corinne Foxx (“Dollface”) and Mae Whitman (“Good Girls”), premiered on PBS. Espresso Media is handling global sales for the title outside of the U.S. and will present it to buyers at the forthcoming Mipcom in Cannes.
“Below the Belt” examines healthcare problems that overwhelmingly affect women, such as societal taboos, gender bias, misinformed doctors and financial barriers to care, and how millions are effectively silenced.
The film also explores the devastating impact of endometriosis, which affects one in nine women globally and is considered one of the most common diseases that most people have never heard of. Endometriosis causes tissue similar to the...
- 10/10/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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