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Dotted with palm trees and coral reefs, Guam is United States territory where military men and Japanese tourists abound. A seemingly perfect backdrop for a strip club, the island should sound ideal to any girl coming from Portland, Atlanta, or Anchorage to work as an exotic dancer.
But is it? Exotic foregrounds the stories of workers, as they discuss this fluid and secretive world…
Cast
Annie Sprinkle
Annie is an an American sex educator and former sex worker. She…
Rachel Aimee
Rachel is a founding editor of $pread Magazine, a mother, a writer,…
Selena
Selena is still taking contracts to work as a dancer in Guam.…
Arie
Arie, a karaoke hostess, continues to live and work in Guam.
Ebony
Ebony, a former karaoke hostess and dancer, is currently living in Sint…
Kat
Kat, a former dancer, is living and working in Anchorage, Alaska.Crew
Producer/Director/Editor: Amy Oden has been working in video for over a decade, producing content that has been featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a United States Presidential Library and Amazon Prime. She currently works for Maryland’s PBS affiliate, producing short form documentary content for their Digital Studios.
Amy earned her Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Maryland in 2004, and began working MHz Networks the same year. She booked large studio shoots at MHz, and pioneered two short form series’ for air. She worked with high profile clients such as the Red Cross and Deutche Welle, and managed crews of up to 35.
In 2011, her first feature-length documentary From the Back of the Room was released, and she screened it in seventeen countries. It landed distribution via Amazon Prime and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Amy received her Master of Arts in Gender and Media from George Washington University in 2012. She then worked as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guam, while shooting Exotic. A 2015 recipient of a Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media, Amy is now living and working in Baltimore. Her work at Maryland Public Television is here, and information about her personal projects is available here: www.fromthebackoftheroom.com.