Francelle

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In 2006 I began shooting on “American Secret”, a film about male infant circumcision in the United States.

The concept for this narrative documentary came about after having spent time spent time living and traveling across eighteen countries on four continents, where I discovered that routine male infant circumcision was unique to the United States. Something of a hobbyist in the areas of Ethics and Rational Thought, I wanted to explore this issue on Film.

To date I have interviewed over a dozen of the leading full-time activists in the movement, including physicians, attorneys, midwives, nurses, and plaintiffs in wrongful circumcision cases. These individuals include founding members of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, National Organization of Restoring Men-USA, National Organization of Restoring Men-UK, the author of the Male Genital Mutilation Bill, as well as peer experts featured on network and cable news and The Showtime Channel.

A native New Yorker, I have lived in London, England; Washington, DC; Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India; and Berkeley, California. I am a 2002 Graduate of Middlesex University, London. This is my first film.