THE ILLUSIONISTS - Trailer

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The Media Education Foundation Presents
A Film by Elena Rossini

The Illusionists
A Film About the Globalization of Beauty

The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves. Taking us from the halls of Harvard to the galleries of the Louvre Museum, from a cosmetic surgeon's office in Beirut to the heart of Tokyo's Electric Town, the film explores how these industries saturate our lives with narrow, Westernized, consumer-driven images of beauty that show little to no respect for biological realities or cultural differences.

The Illusionists features prominent sociologists, politicians, magazine editors, scientists, artists, and activists in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, including: Susie Orbach, Jean Kilbourne, Gail Dines, Susan Linn, Laura Mulvey, Harrison Pope, Nadine Moawad, Ruchi Anand, Paola Audrey Ndengue, Tetsuya Ando, and Jason Karlin.

The full-length education version of the film (54 minutes) and an abridged version (43 minutes -- edited for language and content for younger viewers) are both included on the same DVD.

Producer, Writer, Cinematographer & Editor: Elena Rossini
Original Music by: Pierre-Marie Maulini (STAL)
Music Executive Producer: Olivier Linglet
Sound Design & Mix: Ludovic Jokiel (AOC)
Film Editing & Motion Graphics: Elena Rossini
Supervising Editor: Laura Minnear
Consulting Editor: Louis Goldschmidt
Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Elena Rossini is a filmmaker, DP, photographer, multimedia producer, and blogger. At age 24, Elena worked as writer, producer, director, cinematographer, and editor on Dove Sei Tu, a feature-length narrative film set in between Milan, Lake Como, and Rome, Italy. Other notable film projects include the documentary short Direction, shot in Tokyo and Paris, and Ideal Women, a short documentary juxtaposing beauty ideals in the art world vs. mass media, commissioned by ARTE Web and the Louvre Museum. The film was screened at women's conferences in the United States and Argentina.

In 2009, Elena launched a multimedia platform -- No Country for Young Women -- whose aim is to promote the visibility of professional women and to provide real role models for young girls. The site features over 100 interviews with women, ages 17 to 91, across five continents: from entrepreneurs to NASA engineers, illustrators, architects, filmmakers, non-profit directors, award-winning novelists, and more. In the summer of 2014, Elena co-founded Gender Gap Grader with Elian Carsenat -- a platform empowering companies and organizations with innovative tools to measure the gender gap.

Elena also works as a freelance videographer, photographer, and writer. Her work has appeared on Corriere della Sera, Jezebel, indieWIRE, Adios Barbie, and Gender Across Borders. In 2014, Elena was selected for the prestigious Young Leaders program by the Council for the United States and Italy.