Naomi & The Reckoning
Naomi & The Reckoning is an experimental film that follows Naomi, a young woman with a physical deformity. Struggling with body acceptance all her life, Naomi also comes from a strict religious upbringing. Purity culture further complicated her relationship with her body and, now recently married, she can’t find sexual satisfaction. The film features the narration of Donna Morales and music by Deniz Zeynep.
The film was streamed in a virtual screening with a Q&A in February 2022 (stream the recording here) and had an in-person screening at Stuart Cinema in Brooklyn, NY in May 2022. Manhattan Neighborhood Network aired the film in September 2023 and the film premiered at the Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival in October 2023.
The film was streamed in a virtual screening with a Q&A in February 2022 (stream the recording here) and had an in-person screening at Stuart Cinema in Brooklyn, NY in May 2022. Manhattan Neighborhood Network aired the film in September 2023 and the film premiered at the Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival in October 2023.
Naomi & The Reckoning is based off of my novelette by the same title, which was released by Finishing Line Press in 2020. I also produced the audiobook for Naomi & The Reckoning through Quail Bell Press & Productions. A still from the film was published in the Winter 2022 issue of They Call Us, a feminist literary magazine out of Chicago:
