Project Link
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19887910/

Deconstructing Karen

The docu drama is taken from Authors Regina Jackson and Saira Rao’s event Race2Dinner; They require white women (over dinner) to confront themselves and to acknowledge their own racism and complicity in white supremacy, and the part they can play in tearing down systems of oppression. Discussions with white women over dinner about their complacency and acceptance around racism. Two rules: white women attend and can’t cry and must participate in the conversation.

  • Patty Ivans Specht
    Director
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0997124/
  • Regina Jackson
    Writer
    Co-Author: White Women-Everything You Already Know About Your Racism and How to do Better
  • Saira Rao
    Writer
    Co-Author: White Women-Everything You Already Know About Your Racism and How to do Better
  • Patty Ivan Specht
    Writer
  • Rit Saraswat
    Writer
  • Mikell Ivey
    Producer
  • Jessica McWilliam
    Producer
  • Katherine Montgomery
    Producer
  • Rit Saraswat
    Producer
  • Regina Jackson
    Key Cast
  • Saira Rao
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 20, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    275,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital - Sony FX9 cameras
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16x9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Patty Ivans Specht

http://linkedin.com/in/pattyivins

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Director Statement

In this documentary feature film, nice white women attend the wildest dinner party of their lives. The main course is a radically honest conversation on racism. While sipping white wine and passing the breadbasket, these women experience an eye-opening journey, discovering how they uphold white supremacy every - single - day. For some guests there are epiphanies, others resistance. But for all the guests, something has changed, and they can never unknow the painful truths revealed over this dinner. Meet the entrepreneurial women behind this powerful work and go deep on WHY this is work is worth risking their lives.