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About Astrea Media

Astrea Media is a non-profit organization dedicated to innovative film, video, public art, and web projects, focusing on human rights issues.

Our newest project is Orgasm Inc, award-winning filmmaker Liz Canner's first feature-length documentary. World Premiere of Orgasm Inc in Toronto at Hot Docs May 2 and May 5!

"BIG PHARMA'S HUNT FOR THE BIG O:
A pink Viagra remains as elusive as its goal. A new documentary reveals why."--Globe & Mail preview

The corporate sponsored creation of a disease is not a new phenomenon, but the making of Female Sexual Dysfunction is the freshest, clearest example we have.
--R. Moynihan, The British Medical Journal

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In the shocking and hilarious documentary ORGASM INC., filmmaker Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is developing what they hope will be the first Viagra drug for women that wins FDA approval to treat a new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). Liz gains permission to film the company for her own documentary. Initially, she plans to create a movie about science and pleasure but she soon begins to suspect that her employer, along with a cadre of other medical companies, might be trying to take advantage of women (and potentially endanger their health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits. ORGASM INC. is a powerful look inside the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire — and that ultimate moment: orgasm.

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