Directed & Produced by Jenn Lindsay
Short Documentary | 15 min | English | Italy, USA
Thursday, September 25th, 2025 | 6:00PM Screening
Neighborhood House at Christ Church
20 N. American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Body Stories is a short documentary built out of an ambitious storytelling project, and a vivid experimental exploration of life lived in a human body. “Body Stories” unites the bodies of 25 storytellers through a prismatic kaleidoscope of reflections on birth, death, and rebirth, vividly illustrating an interwoven collection of authentic anecdotes about bodily memories, fears, and desires. The narratives touch on deeply personal memories of families, religion, social media, sexuality, pleasure, food, medical conditions, tattoos, body size, and the struggle for self-acceptance.
Director’s Bio
Jenn Lindsay
Director/Producer
Jenn Lindsay is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, social scientist, and TED Talk speaker.
Since 2005, she worked in post-production as a film editor, story assistant, and independent producer with MTV, the Sundance Channel, Atmosphere Pictures, and Swete Films. Her 2020 documentary short Quarantined Faith won multiple awards at film festivals, most notably the top prize at the Intimalente Ethnographic Film Festival and a Special Jury Award for a film on migration and coexistence at the Religion Today Film Festival.
She has screened her ethnographic documentaries in festivals, conferences, and classrooms around the world, winning awards from the International Society for Religion and Science and the Society for Psychological Anthropology. A graduate of Stanford University in playwriting and an alumna of Yale School of Drama, Jenn earned her Ph.D. in the social science of religion at Boston University and is an adjunct professor of sociology and communications at John Cabot University.
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