Filmmaker Shaina Feinberg feels horrible about how she looks. In A BRIEF HISTORY OF HATING MY FACE, she unpacks the anguish that has consumed an incalculable amount of her life.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF HATING MY FACE is a nine-minute documentary that was commissioned by The New York Times in 2023. It touches on several themes, including body image, beauty standards and cultural identity. The film examines the filmmaker's life-long struggle with body dysmorphic disorder, a condition that causes her to fixate on perceived flaws in her appearance. At nine-minutes long, the film is fast, funny and informative.
Shaina Feinberg (she/they) is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer. She spent her twenties making a stoner, punk sketch show called The Spew. She has been on This American Life, was a resident at Space on Ryder Farms (2018) and Twenty Summers (2021), a Reel Families for Change grantee (2022) and a recipient of the Reboot Studios grant (2023). Her short doc, A Brief History of Hating My Face (2023), was commissioned by The New York Times. She has written for The New Yorker, Washington Post, Tablet and writes regularly for the New York Times. Her third book, Work, is due out in December 2024. Her films and books have been written about in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bust, Broadly, Logo, THEM, Indiewire and more. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their two children.
