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2024 Sarasota Film Festival

Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager

Documentary

20231 hr 13 minUnited StatesEnglish

Screenings

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    Thursday, April 11 at 8:30 PM EDT

    Ends 9:43 PM EDT

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    Regal Hollywood screen #7

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    Friday, April 12 at 4:00 PM EDT

    Ends 5:13 PM EDT

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    Regal Hollywood - screen #3

About this film

Bunny Yeager, once heralded as the world's prettiest photographer, had a huge influence in 20th-century pop culture though few people know her name. Whether by popularizing the bikini, helping discover Bettie Page, shaping the image of Playboy or inventing the selfie, Bunny was a trailblazer whose work bucked against conservative 1950s America and helped pave the way for both the feminist movement and the sexual revolution. Yet the very changes she helped usher in would soon render her a forgotten relic...till now. Dennis Scholl’s incisive, entertaining documentary, with comments from Yeager's adult children and testimonies from cultural icons such as photographer Bruce Weber, Dita von Teese, and Larry King, and (of course) chock full of her work, reinstates Bunny as an iconic artist and portrays the evolution of women’s autonomy in postwar America.


In Attendance: Dennis Scholl, Director; Kareem Tabsch, Producer

Credits

Director
Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch
Producer
Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch, Konstantia Kontaxis
Executive Producer
Alex Fumero
Co-Producer
Marlon Johnson
Screenwriter
Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch
Editor
Konstantia Kontaxis
Sound Design
Scott Pringle
Cast
Dita Von Teese, Larry King, Hugh Hefner
Documentary FeatureFemale leadArt

Trailer

Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager
Naked Ambition: Bunny Yeager — production still