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Motherland: Tales of Wonder
19941 h 29 min 45 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Helene Klodawsky
Production: Signe JohanssonGinny Stikeman
This wryly humorous and provocative feature-length documentary casts a critical eye at the North American experience of motherhood over the latter half of this century. Through conversations with seven mothers, a wonderful selection of archival footage from the 1950s, as well as some very candid and funny home movies from the director, Motherland offers new ways of thinking about what it means to be a good mom.
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Subject categories
- Women > Changing RolesHistorical PerspectivesMass Media
- Families > Child Rearing and DevelopmentWomen
Credits
- director
- Helene Klodawsky
- narrator
- Helene Klodawsky
- producer
- Signe Johansson
- executive producer
- Ginny Stikeman
- cinematography
- Zoe Dirse
- Joan Hutton
- animation camera
- Pierre Landry
- Raymond Dumas
- Lynda Pelley
- sound
- Justine Pimlott
- Marie-France Delagrave
- editing
- Sidonie Kerr
- sound editing
- Jackie Newell
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- animation
- Meilan Lam
- music
- Kathryn Moses
Awards
- Bronze Apple Award - Category: Domestic and International ConcernsNational Educational Media Network Competition
- First Place Award - Category: #11 / Parenting IssuesItinerant - National Council on Family Relations