Breaking Out

198530 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Brenda Longfellow

Production: Aline Akeson

Script: Brenda LongfellowGlen Richards

Produced by O.T.C. Media, U.S.A. for Health and Welfare Canada. For purchase, contact Full Frame and Video Distribution

Based on interviews with women who have experienced marriage breakdown, Breaking Out is composed as a docu/drama with visual dramatizations of key situations. The character in the dramatizations is a real single mother, Carol Lalonde, who relives her experience of confronting bureaucratic indifference of state welfare and court institutions.

Subject categories

  • Women > Family LifePoverty
  • Families > Single-parent FamiliesSociety and the Family
  • Law and Crime > Women and the Legal System

Credits

director
Brenda Longfellow
producer
Aline Akeson
script
Brenda Longfellow
Glen Richards
camera
Zoe Dirse
sound
Lynn Demers
editing
Glen Richards
sound editing
Glen Richards
music
Arlene Mantle
Bruce Pellerin