About

WHAT: A documentary film that will follow President-elect Donald Trump’s, first 100 days of his presidency as it pertains to women's health rights and health clinics.

WHY: With Trump’s intention to nominate two and potentially more Republican judges to the Supreme Court, many publicly funded programs and laws that have been protected in the past are now on the chopping block. One law threatened in particular, is Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court passed agreed upon on January 22, 1973. The Court’s 7-2 majority vote deemed abortion a fundamental right under the United States Constitution.

Another important resource under siege by our future President, Donald Trump, is the federal government funding for women’s health clinics such as Planned Parenthood. Such health clinics provide STD testing and treatment, contraception and sexual education, give general health exams for both men and women, as well as provide safe abortions for those in need. President Obama issued an executive order protecting these services through Title X, a form of federal funding for family planning. Some considered this movement a last hurrah for the Obama administration, but the battle is not over. Republican Diane Black, the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 6th congressional district, explained in a statement that "come next year, our pro-life majorities in Congress will be positioned to work with President-elect Trump … to not only roll back this latest overreach but also to enact new legal protections for these most vulnerable members of our society.”

We have already seen the effects of Trump's intentions on our country. Oklahoma moved to pass a law requiring businesses to include anti-abortion signs in their public restrooms (a movement that was abandoned due to cost); Gov. Kasich of Ohio just signed a bill that bans abortion 20 weeks after conception. The changes are already taking effect. Moving forward into a new presidency, the story ahead is a strong one: one that needs to be told. We are going to follow the fight for women, the fight for equality, and the fight for a woman’s right to her own body. Our footage will probe the true divide in our country, the silent war between pro-choice and pro-life and how one does incorporate the other. 2400 hours will include both sides of the story and how these issues unfold over the course of Trump’s first 100 days, days in which he has promised to do the most damage. We are planning to document the whole thing as a means to show the world just how high the stakes are as well as showcase the resilience of women in the U.S. We will not go back.

Women's March, San Jose - meeting

Women's March, San Jose - meeting

Where your money will go

Kelsey Bollig - Director

Kelsey graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2015 with a BFA in film. She currently resides in San Francisco where she works on independent films and practices photography. Kelsey was inspired by the past election to switch her focus from horror films to documentaries - although sometimes, the two are one and the same. Her goals with this film are to inspire women across the country to fight for their rights, to not settle for society's archaic values and ideals of what women should be. We must move forward together.

Filza Ahmad - Assistant Director

Filza is a photographer. She received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. As a Muslim woman of color hoping to gain immigrant status in the United States in the near future, the election of Donald Trump and the consequences that will follow hit her hard on many different levels. Recognizing that it is during turmoil that art has the greatest potential for positive change, she is channeling her fears and hopes into this documentary to help create something with which to move forward in this uncertain time.