DocYard: Leona’s Sister Gerri

Director: Jane Gillooly

Film Details: 1995, 57 minutes, color, sound, English

Filmmaker Jane Gillooly will attend in person for Q&A. 

About the Film:

Leona’s Sister Gerri tells the dramatic story of Gerri Santoro, a mother of two and the “real person” in the now famous photo of an anoymous woman on a motel floor, dead from an illegal abortion. Reprinted thousands of times on placards, and in the media, this grisly photo became a pro-choice icon. Should the media have used this image? What circumstances led to Gerri’s tragic death? Powerfully addressing issues of reproductive rights and domestic violence, this video is a moving portrait of Gerri Santoro’s life and society’s response to her death.