Naked Acts

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Co-Presented by the San Francisco Black Film Festival!

“A REAL DISCOVERY. An exploration of Black female sexuality and
identity and the struggles to live a creative life, told through the
story of an actor grappling with whether to perform a nude scene.”
– Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

“FRESH, FUNNY, AND ORIGINAL”
– Variety

“Off-beat, razor-sharp comedy”
– The New York Times

“Smartly written and charmingly neurotic”
– New York Magazine

Celebrated as a key film in the canon of independent cinema by African-Americans in the 1990s, Bridgett M. Davis’s Naked Acts was included in the seminal anthology “The 50 Most Influential Black Films” by S. Torriano Berry. Beautiful aspiring actor Cicely (Jake-ann Jones) has just landed her first major role, but there’s a big problem: it requires a nude scene. Her mother was a Blaxploitation star known for her sex appeal, while Cicely is a survivor of sexual assault with life-long body image issues, all of which has left her with a strong aversion to disrobing in public. Now, with the support of her boyfriend Joel (Ron Cephas Jones), she attempts to get past her fear.