Welcome to this bonus episode of VisAbleBlackwoman the podcast. If you are familiar with NYC theater, you know Sarah Jones. Sarah is a gifted storyteller with an uncanny ability to slip in and out of various genders, identities, and ethnicities with powerful impact. Sell/Buy/Date was originally a successful one woman show about Sex work but when word got out that Jones and her team had the opportunity to make the play into a film, there was a backlash.
So, during a global pandemic and while on the verge of being “canceled” Sarah Jones dove deep into her creative core and crafted Sell/Buy/Date brilliantly. Her approach, is to tell the truth of the situation and instead of interviewing sex workers, taking their stories and appropriating them into characters… Sarah visits and interviews sex workers with diverse perspecteives of sex work and the audience is allowed to learn about sex work from sex workers who know the life.
As Sell/Buy/Date prepares for the 2022 San Francisco film festival this week, she was so generous to take a little time out of her busy schedule to talk to me about her creative process. So if you’d like to see the film this week it will be screening at the San Francisco film festival on Sunday, April 24th, at 5:30pm at the Vogue theater CLICK HERE for tickets. (https://sffilm.org/event/sell-buy-date/) Follow Sarah on IG @yesimsarahjones If you loved what you heard today please subscribe, share and give us a positive review wherever you’re listening. And if you’d like to see the video interview with Sarah and all of my other podcast guests become a sustaining member of VisAbleblackwoman productions on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/visAbleblackwoman
