July 9, 2022
7pm
Every year over 300,000 women go missing in the United States. There are currently over 2600 Jane Does waiting to be identified. Even during the height of the #metoo movement when sexual harassment and violence against women was in the news every day the stories of these women still went untold.
She is a full-length documentary about writer Aimée Baker and her award-winning poetry collection Doe. Doe is her quest to give voice to the missing and unidentified women of the United States. Baker researched police reports missing persons fliers and news articles to create each poem. The fifty poems in this collection attempt to bear witness to their stories as an act of remembrance and activism.
Many films are created about murderers and serial killers but few center the stories of the victims. She explores some of the cases in Doe giving background of the events and the women but never mentioning the perpetrators names.
Every day that passes another woman goes missing another body is found. The few that make it to the top of our newsfeed capture the nation’s attention. This film brings the same attention to some of the stories that never made it to the news.
