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In wake of the Black Lives Matter Movement, we need art that explores Black lives within and beyond the legacy of racism. Mama, I’m Through reflects the particular choices facing Black women, but also the reality of every person who has wrestled with the ethics of becoming a parent in this chaotic modern world. As a director, I feel deeply drawn to conversations on Blackness and reproduction as a Black filmmaker, as a scholar of Medical Anthropology, and personally as a practicing birth Doula. The questions I seek to explore through this documentary are intimate and self-reflecting. I too am an undecided woman. Like many others, I love children, but I feel uncertain about birthing them into a world of racial violence, war, climate change, etc. But in this international moment of Black Lives Matter and the carpe diem that Covid has provided us, now is a moment to explore this fear in community. I believe that the world at large stands to learn much from Black women. I want myself and my audience to leave this film with our souls singing and a dash more of the courage to live and dream of freedom for all our children.
Country: United States of America (USA)
T-Port Partner: Festival Formula
Webpage: http://www.emmazinha.com
Bio: Emma Morgan-Bennett is a filmmaker from Washington Heights, NY. She holds a particular interest in questions surrounding visual media, race, reproduction, and apocalypse. Awarded the Marshall Scholarship (2020), she is currently pursuing a MA in Digital Media at Goldsmiths.
After the death of her 102-year-old great-grandmother during BLM protests, Emma seeks advice from her...
