Monday, June 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Vidiots, Los Angeles
**Screenwriters**: Lizzie Borden, Sandra Kay **Producers**: Lizzie Borden, Andi Gladstone One of the unsexiest films about sex workers ever, Lizzie Borden’s sophomore feature is a frank and funny portrait of the ladies of the night and their non-glamorized view of their work and their world. Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark *Born in Flames, Working Girls* reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly (Louise Smith), a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan brothel, as she juggles a steady stream of clients, balances nurturing relationships with her coworkers with the demands of an ambitious madam, and above all fights to maintain her sense of self in a business in which the line between the personal and the professional is all too easily blurred. In viewing prostitution through the lens of labor, Borden boldly desensationalizes the subject, offering an empathetic, humanizing, often humorous depiction of women for whom this work is just another day at the office. **Picks from the Video Store** Looking for more entertaining and humanistic portraits of sex workers? *Love & Anarchy, Angel, Streetwalkin’* **Accessibility Options**: Amplified Audio, please see the box office for devices.