Korean Premiere | 2013 Sundance Film Festival / 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival

Synopsis

 Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, Anita reveals the intimate story of a young, brilliant African American woman who spoke truth to power and accuses the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted sexual advances during explosive Senate Hearings in 1991 and ignites a political firestorm about sexual harassment, race, power and politics that resonates 20 years later today. Anita is a dramatic look at the consequences to a private citizen acting out of a civic duty to \'speak truth to power.\'
 

Program Note

 Why is Anita HILL\'s testimony presented 22 years ago
 still on everyone\'s lips? HILL was a promising young
 lawyer working with the Supreme Court nominee
 Clarence THOMAS. During THOMAS\' confirmation
 process, HILL bravely revealed that she had suffered for
 his sexual jokes and derogatory remarks about women
 while working with him. The word \'workplace sexual
 harassment\' was not familiar to the public when Hill was
 called to testify at the hearings in 1991. Furthermore, as
 victims\' right was still weak, she was plagued by lying
 rumors after her public testimony to his unwanted jokes
 such as \'hair on his coke\' when he was alone with her.
 Instead of the sensational event itself Anita, however,
 puts more emphasis on HILL\'s recollection of the
 bitter controversy 22 years ago, namely the impact on
 feminism and the civic rights movements in America.
 Indeed, HILL is a heroine who dared to speak truth to
 power. Why don\'t you watch Anita, especially those
 who are highly educated professional women questioning
 for what feminism is still necessary? HILL just went through
 what you might face someday. [Sunah KIM]