CALL ME DADDY
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
CALL ME DADDY is a hybrid documentary film about sugar dating relationships in contemporary Finland. Combining documentary and fictional storytelling, the film explores the commodification of sex life and the definitions of intimacy through sugar dating.
Director & Writer: Inka Rusi
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE | 90’ | STATUS: in development
The project has been awarded a one year working grant from Kone Foundation and a development grant from the Finnish Film Foundation in December2023.
FINLAND
RELEASED FILMS
BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER (2022)
“FIERCE AND FOCUSED… BRAINWASHED IS A BRACING BLAST OF CRITICAL RIGOUR.”
- Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
“BRAINWASHED WILL FOREVER CHANGE HOW YOU LOOK AT FILMS.”
—Kate Erbland, INDIEWIRE
“BRAINWASHED IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FILMS ANYONE CAN WATCH RIGHT NOW”
— Joey Soloway, producer/director
2022 “BEST OF FESTS” AT IDFA
BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER is a feature documentary based on director Nina Menkes's cinematic presentation, ‘Sex and Power, the Visual Language of Cinema’ and uses film clips by A-list directors from 1896 through to the present, to show how sexist shot design contributes to a pervasive environment of sexual harassment and assault, as well as employment discrimination against women, especially in the film industry.
Inka Rusi is Creative Producer of the documentary together with Editor Cecily Rhett, overseeing the narrative arc of the film and visual design of the film clips included in the film.
BRAINWASHED: SEX-CAMERA-POWER is presented by Tim Disney, Susan Disney Lord, Abigail Disney & Menkesfilm, with additional support from the EOS World Fund and CalArts Center for New Performance.
The film premiered in 2022 at the Sundance Film Festival, following with Berlinale Panomama, CPH:Dox, Frameline Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and IDFA among others.
