A Conversation With the Filmmakers of 'When Men Were Men'
Hours before their line-up of screenings for Trans Awareness Week began, the filmmakers of 'When Men Were Men' chatted with me about the film's personal exploration of masculinity.

Aditya is top class executive of a company as well as a renowned painter, who is living happily with his caring wife Anagha. They are newly married and enjoying a very cozy life. One day Aditya receives a flirtatious message on Whats App from an unknown number. After consecutive ping up from unknown number, he tempted to know about the person. With the curiosity, Aditya makes a call to the sender. The call is answered by a beautiful female voice. Mesmerized with the voice, Aditya starts a search for the unknown woman . In between continuous messaging, he is tempted and starts imaging that particular woman on the ground on her beautiful voice on canvas. This creates further more issues in his life.
Hours before their line-up of screenings for Trans Awareness Week began, the filmmakers of 'When Men Were Men' chatted with me about the film's personal exploration of masculinity.
I didn’t love Expecting Amy, the mini-series following Amy Schumer’s pregnancy, but it brought up a lot of great unspoken side-effects of working and growing a human in America.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
When diverse representation is featured on-screen, it oftentimes comes with strings attached that undermine the message they were trying to send. This can be attributed to the fact that behind-the-screen, the industry primarily does not reflect the breadth of diverse difference that is present in daily life. That’s why when something as powerful and authentic as Minari comes along, it is both incredibly wonderful and needs a large audience to witness it.