Comedian Samantha Bee says now "really is the time" to get the word out about the film she executive produced focused on reproductive rights, which is why the Academy Award-nominated project is being made available to watch for free ahead of Election Day.
"Red, White and Blue" stars Brittany Snow as a single mom living in Arkansas who "is forced to cross state lines in search of a critically urgent and necessary abortion." Its writer and director, Nazrin Choudhury, penned the script for the 23-minute film hours after the Supreme Court's 2022 decision to strike down Roe v. Wade.
The emotional film, Bee said, has a way of "physicalizing all of these kind of ephemeral ideas about women's health care and access to abortion."
"We talk about it and argue about it, but for a lot of people, they feel that it isn't really practical to their lives. And so I think that it makes real the stakes of the issue of women's bodily autonomy," Bee, a longtime women's........