Joanna Arnow: The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something has Passed

Authentically Kinky (formerly known as What Women and Other Wonderful Humans Want)

BDSM in Mainstream Film

Filmmaker Joanna Arnow’s hilarious comedy, which world-premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and is executive produced by Sean Baker, follows a 30-something New York woman (Arnow) as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

It's an interesting interview about one more step into the mainstream that our world has taken!

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JOANNA ARNOW (Writer, Director, and Actor)

Joanna Arnow is a filmmaker, actor and writer based in Brooklyn. She wrote and directed

“Bad at Dancing,” a narrative short that was awarded the Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize

and is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel paired with “Jules and Jim.”

Joanna’s most recent short “Laying Out” premiered at New York Film Festival and was

selected as a festival highlight in The New Yorker. She also directed several other films

including the personal documentary feature “i hate myself :),” a film that was named on

top ten lists at IndieWire and Fandor. Her films have screened at other festivals including

Rotterdam, Hong Kong International and Guanajuato. Joanna has participated in a

number of workshops and development programs including Berlinale Talents, Berlinale

Script Station, Gotham Week, When East Meets West, New York Film Festival Artist

Academy and Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.

In addition to making films, Joanna works as an actor and writer. As an actor, she has

appeared in Aaron Schimberg's “Chained for Life,” Zach Fleming’s “Staycation,” Todd

Verow's "Fucked in the Head," Kati Skelton’s “Wet Shapes,” Collins Salovaara’s

“Google Ambien,” Veronica Rutlege’s forthcoming “Citizen Zero,” and Colin Healey’s

“In the Cards.” Joanna also writes fiction and draws comics. Her pieces have been

published in Glimmer Train Press, Popula, Monkeybicycle, Crack the Spine, Nanoism

and Dogzplot.

THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING IS PASSED is her first

narrative feature film.