THE PINK PILL captures a pivotal moment in the ongoing struggle for complete health care equality, at a time when bodily autonomy hangs in the balance.
THE PINK PILL illuminates the fight to make sexual satisfaction a priority for women and gender diverse people when their basic healthcare needs are under-researched, underfunded, and often outright ignored. The film follows the trailblazers fighting to change the system - doctors, lawyers, scientists, influencers and a pharma entrepreneur who dared to bring a so-called “female Viagra” to market. The film reveals the shocking double standard in healthcare: while over 20 medications for male sexual dysfunction are being approved in months, the work to get a drug specifically targeting female sexual satisfaction stretched over a decade, facing excessive restrictions and public vilification despite addressing a condition affecting millions of women.
Aisling Chin-Yee is an award-winning producer, writer, and director based in Montreal, Canada, and Los Angeles, California. In 2024, she was awarded the Trailblazer Award by the Reel World Film Festival. She won the Directors Guild of Canada award for directorial achievement in a mini-series for the CBC series Plan B, starring Patrick J Adams in 2023. In 2021, Aisling was celebrated as one of DOC NYC and HBO Documentary’s 40 Under 40. New Yorker Magazine hailed Aisling’s latest film as “a genre unto itself” and one of the magazine’s Best Movies of 2021. She also won the DGC Award for Best Editing in Documentary in 2021. She was named one of Canada’s Rising Film Stars by Now Magazine in 2019 and by The Montreal Gazette in 2020, after her debut feature film, The Rest of Us, premiered at TIFF19. Aisling also produced critically acclaimed films such as Rhymes for Young Ghouls, The Saver, and Last Woman Standing.
