New York, NY – Wed June 5, 2024 – Award-winning director, writer and actor Jenn Harris, who can currently be seen in the Oscar-Winning film American Fiction, has just released her award-winning, critically acclaimed short film, She’s Clean today, June 5, 2024 after the film has enjoyed resounding response at film festival screenings around the world. Harris won Best Actress at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival, and Best Female Director at the Poppy Jasper Film Festival, and screened at several other notable and Oscar-qualifying festivals.
She’s Clean is a comedic short film written and directed by and starring Jenn Harris (American Fiction), Louis Cancelm (Killers of the Flower Moon), and 11 other men. Shot all in one location – our protagonist’s bathroom – a woman tries to marry her desires for sexual freedom with emotional intimacy by showering with all of her dates. The film is an achingly personal story of a woman who chooses to share her most intimate space with her lovers, exposing herself to a plenitude of reactions. It was important to Harris to make a film involving sex where all the characters are consenting, non-harming and in which there is no need to point out the permission or excuses our hero needs in order for her to enjoy herself and her partners. There’s also a look into intimacy and middle age, “the delicacy and loneliness of it when you are perfectly happy with the way you’ve turned out” is something Harris says is hard to put her finger on. Critics agree that she’s succeeded including the Cinetropolis podcast who called the film “a clever, refreshing, and more personable take on the oldest human tradition through comedy.”
