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Leona’s Sister Gerri

A woman whose nude body was abandoned on a motel room floor after an botched illegal abortion became an icon for an extraordinarily divisive issue. Who was she?

Series

POV

Premiere Date

November 4, 1995

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Jane Gillooly

Producer

Jane Gillooly is a non-fiction and narrative film and video maker. Projects include Today The Hawk Takes One Chick (2007-08) an observational film shot in a rural Swaziland; Rockefeller-nominated experimental feature film script, The Not Dead Yet Club (2006); Dragonflies, The Baby Cries (2000) which premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and aired on PBS and the Sundance Channel. She was also co-producer of Theme: Murder (1998), selected to screen at Full Frame Documentary Festival and INPUT. Her film Leona’s Sister Gerri (1995) was included on the Best of P.O.V. collection released 2007. A MacDowell fellow, Gillooly is a professor of film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.