As Mother’s Day approaches this year, I will have a little swell of pride inside me instead of my normal feeling of general numbness. A little piece of a story I’m a part of will be told.
On Monday, May 12th at 9PM, the documentary The (Dead Mothers) Club will premiere on HBO. As you may remember, I backed this film in 2011 on Kickstarter and I’ve been following the two filmmakers, Katie Green and Carlye Rubin, ever since. I’m incredibly excited for these two to have their film debut here.
I’m not in the film or anything and to be honest, I haven’t seen it yet. I’ve just watched the trailer a million times and feel this is a story that many will identify with.
Please help show your support and tune in to watch it on HBO on Monday, May 12th at 9PM.
I would host a viewing party but I’m pretty sure I’m going to go to the ugly cry during this so I’m better off doing that in private.
Here’s a little more about the film from the Smoke & Apple Productions website:
The Club tells the stories of three women whose mothers died during adolescence - a Southern artist making sense of her past while redefining herself through her artwork; a high school senior struggling to gain independence from her close-knit family; and a Brazilian living in NY, navigating first-time motherhood while discovering her genetic fate.
The film reveals how coming of age without their mothers has and continues to play a role in their lives. Structured around a series of ‘dialogues’ featuring Rosie O’Donnell, Jane Fonda and Molly Shannon who speak candidly about their own experiences and thread the stories of the three women followed together. From their intricate relationships with ‘mother figures’, the cyclical nature of grief to their own mortality, the women of The Club provoke thoughts surrounding the innate and complicated nature of the mother/daughter relationship, even in its absence…
xo,
S.
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