Therese Shechter
Therese Shechter is an award winning filmmaker, inspiring public speaker, and the founder of the production company Trixie Films. Her work fuses humor, activism, and personal storytelling to disturb whats considered most sacred about womanhood. Therese began her two decades long film career as an intern at Robert DeNiro's production company Tribeca Productions. Since then, her documentaries have screened on television and at film festivals from Rio de Janeiro to Istanbul to Seoul. Her work is in the collections of over 300 universities, nonprofits, and libraries, and has been covered by Salon, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Elle, The Guardian, and Ms. Magazine, among others.Thereses documentaries grow out of taboos around womanhood, and often reflect how her own life has shifted uncomfortably under their weight. Frustrated by the lack of narratives that mirrored her own life, she has created films that use humor to explore a host of thorny questions around womens roles and destinies.Her current film, My SoCalled Selfish Life is a paradigmshifting journey through one of our societys greatest social taboos: choosing not to become a mother. The film is currently screening at film festivals, colleges, conferences, nonprofits, and virtual streaming events. This topic has hit a nerve with her audience: the Facebook group she created for the film now has close to 11,000 followers and a movement is growing.
