“There are some people who think that we are post-civil rights, we are post-feminism, and therefore we’re post-intersectional,” an interviewee says in a new documentary about the contemporary struggle for gender and racial equality. “I can’t see how we’re post-anything and I can’t see how we can possibly think we’re done.” From MAKERS, a media brand dedicated to advancing the women’s movement, “Not Done: Women Remaking America” explores everything from the Women’s March to #MeToo to Black Lives Matter. A trailer for the film has dropped.
“I see this as a moment of taking feminism back, making feminism a project that all of us can share,” a Black woman says in the spot, seemingly alluding to the movement’s historical exclusion of women of color and queer women.
“Not Done” also revisits other instances of women breaking barriers in modern history, such as the record-breaking number of women elected in the 2018 midterms. “The United States Congress was certainly not built for young women, but it’s really young women of color who have pushed forward for so many changes,” Congresswoman Lauren Underwood explains, “and that has just turned the power dynamics here on Capitol Hill on its head.”
Shonda Rhimes, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman, Gloria Steinem, Tina Tchen, and Tarana Burke are among the artists, activists, and leaders who provide commentary and insight in the film.
“Not Done” is Sara Wolitzky’s directorial debut. “It was a privilege to make this film and capture the extraordinary leaders and change agents featured in it. ‘Not Done’ is a testament to the tenacity and power of women who believe that no one is free until everyone is free,” she said. “I hope audiences will walk away appreciating this supercharged chapter in feminist history, and also motivated – alongside the unstoppable women on screen – to keep fighting for true equality.”
Dyllan McGee, MAKERS founder and “Not Done” EP, added, “I have been awed making this film and looking back at how much has happened in the women’s movement since the last election. Especially as we now mourn the passing of a giant like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I am heartened by the heroic women in this film who carry on her legacy.”
“Not Done” will air on PBS October 27.
