UPCOMING SCREENINGS
DOC NYC
NOVEMBER 18, 2024 6:00PM | NEW YORK CITY, USA
NOVEMBER 19, 2024 12:30PM | NEW YORK CITY, USA
Post-screening Q&A with Staceyann Chin and Director Laurie Townshend
ST. JOHNS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL
ATLANTIC CANADA PREMIERE
OCTOBER 23, 7PM | ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA
Post-screening Q&A with Staceyann Chin and Director Laurie Townshend
An emotionally sweeping tale of healing and forgiveness, A Mother Apart accompanies powerhouse Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin as she re-imagines the essential art of mothering—having been abandoned by her own mother.
How do you raise a child when your own mother abandoned you? In a remarkable story of healing and forgiveness, Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin, renowned for performances in Def Poetry Slam and hit solo shows like MotherStruck!, radically re-imagines the essential art of mothering. In seeking her elusive mother—a trail that leads to Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne and, finally, Jamaica—Staceyann and her daughter forge a new sense of home.
Co-production by
Directed by
Laurie Townshend
Produced by
Alison Duke
Ngardy Conteh George
Justine Pimlott
Executive Producers
Chanda Chevannes
Alison Duke
Ngardy Conteh George
Anita Lee
Written by
Laurie Townshend
Alison Duke
CREDITS
Edited by
Sonia Godding Togobo
Motion Designer
Ramón Charles
Directors of Photography
Mrinal Desai
Ashley Iris Gill
Gabriela Osio Vanden
Music Composed by
Tom Third
Vocals by
SATE
Associate Producer
Elise Whittington
Development Producer
Lea Marin
Production Managers
Nina Beveridge
Fonna Seidu
Story Editor
Ricardo Acosta
Appearing
Hazel
Larah
Montreal
Jennifer Belson
Janet James
Larry James
Lisa Mullings
New York
Raquel Thompson
Jamaica
Mary Miles-Blake
Rachel Cargle
SEE EPK FOR FULL CREDIT LIST HERE
SCREENINGS