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Mia Donovan · 2011 · 1h21m
An empathetic & personal film about a resilient woman who emerges from the adult entertainment industry after contracting HIV.
Thursday, Dec. 11, 7:00pm
Inside Lara Roxx
NOTE: We are going to be in a different location for this screening. As seats are limited at USVA please reserve your spot using the link below.
Admission
Free
In the spring of 2004, 21-year old Lara Roxx left her hometown of Montreal and headed to L.A to try to make tons of cash in the adult entertainment industry. Within two months of working in this industry she contracted the most virulent form of HIV while performing sex in front of the camera. Inside Lara Roxx is a feature-length-documentary about the events leading up to that scene and the years after it- it is about the adult movie industry and its impact on a young life. Lara Roxx, as she will come to be known in the sex industry, has been irrevocably changed by her work in porn. Miss Roxx’s story created a media sensation, but it’s when the media hype dies that Inside Lara Roxx begins – in a psychiatric ward in Montreal. The porn industry, a powerful industry with billions of dollars in profits worldwide has failed Lara. Out of the hundreds of thousands of sex scenes that have been recorded on film over the last few decades, there have only been 19-recorded incidents of HIV in the heterosexual porn industry. Lara Roxx is one of them.
Marianne Franklin is full Professor, Chair Media, Cultural Industries and Society at the Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, and Chair of Program Cluster Board 5 (Arts, Architecture, and Media) at the University of Groningen. Her work explores a range of topics at the intersection of gender, global politics, and media. Alongside her research and teaching, Marianne has been active for a number of years in human rights and gender advocacy at the UN Internet Governance Forum, Council of Europe, and other policy spaces such as the European Dialogue on Internet Governance and the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum.
Rodrigo Gonzalez is a Mexican queer academic at the University of Groningen. His interdisciplinary work bridges psychology, pedagogy, and queer studies, with a focus on gender, sexuality, and youth. His research examines structural disparities in particularly LGBTQIA+ youth, and he is co-author of Queer and in Care.
The post-screening conversation will be moderated by Liza Kolomiiets, a film researcher and columnist whose work explores media, perception, and audience experience. Her interests include how films shape our emotional, cultural, and sensory understanding of complex political and ethical issues.
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