Empathy: This documentary film follows a heroin-addicted professional escort as she moves between New York City, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. Combining frank images of the actual labor of sex work with intimate portraits of her interpersonal life, the film is an alternately humorous and harrowing look at a seldom depicted side of American life as well as a meditation on the performativity at the core of documentary filmmaking and the sex industry alike. Written in close collaboration with its subject/star, Empathy marks the feature-length directorial debut for Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli. . . . #mixnyc, #queerfilm @heather_renee_russ @_niknaz_ @parnesspoodle @thebmichael @mediapraxis @jdr____llc @100yearfilms @anthologyfilmarchives (at Anthology Film Archives) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5EVJLjlb07/?igshid=dvlt3bz3ien2