Callie Calypso is available, enthusiastic, submissive and ready to do anything. Her body is there to be enjoyed, exploited, abused, and discarded.  Callie is the simple, undemanding embodiment of our fantasies — the ones we know and some yet to be discovered.  She is an illusion.  She is a character in a film. 

 

Her body belongs to Minnie.  Minnie is a complex human being who has prevailed through abuse, degradation, and human trafficking at the hands of the porn industry.  She escaped with her life.  Now she must discover if that life is enough.

 

I’m Not Her is a cinematic passage documenting Minnie’s journey of investigation and discovery as she attempts to draw a map from her origin as an enthusiastic young gymnast to her current identity — a terrified and vengeful former porn star who escaped the industry physically but is still trapped by her past.

 

This film is a portrait of a woman brimming with ambition and curiosity.  Somewhere, she became cornered by her own audacity and ardor and victimized by the porn industry: a system that capitalizes on our darkest desires and deepest shame. 

 

The porn industry is big business.  For many young people today, porn is their primary source for sex education.  The characters we watch in porn inform our desires and expectations — they lay a roadmap for our sexuality.  

 

But behind those characters are real people, like Minne. Now she is ready to speak up and tell the world about her experiences in the porn industry.