NFB Collection
Playing for Keeps (International Version)
199047 min 24 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Lyn Wright
Production: Silva BasmajianJohn Taylor
In this grittily realistic documentary, Debbie, Karen and Tracey describe in their own words what it's like to be a teenage single mother. In the process of telling their stories, they talk about relationships, family support or the lack thereof, birth control, the economics of poverty, and their own truncated dreams and aspirations.
Subject categories
- Families > AdolescentsPovertySingle-parent Families
- Social Issues > AdolescentsFamily LifePovertyWomen
- Women > Family LifePoverty
- Children and Youth > Living ConditionsSexualitySocial Services
Credits
- director
- Lyn Wright
- producer
- Silva Basmajian
- executive producer
- John Taylor
- cinematography
- Joan Hutton
- sound
- Chaim Gilad
- editing
- Roushell Goldstein
- sound editing
- Alison Clark
- re-recording
- Dino Pigat
- Ruth Mahon