Director:
Christy Turlington Burns
Producer:
Dallas Brennan Rexer
Editor:
Sari Gilman
Director of Photography:
Kirsten Johnson
Composer:
Paul Brill
Co-Producer:
Clancy McCarty
Sound Recordists:
Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp
No Woman, No Cry
(No Woman, No Cry)
In English, Swahili, Bangla, Spanish with English subtitles.
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[WOMAN] | 2009 | 60 min | Feature Documentary
Directed by: Christy Turlington Burns
USAWorld Premiere
Interests: Documentary, Female Director(s), Health Issues, Womenwww.nowomannocrythemovie.com
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Program Notes
For more than a half million women each year, pregnancy is a death sentence. Every minute another mother dies from a complication in pregnancy or childbirth. Shockingly, nearly all maternal deaths and disabilities could be prevented. No Woman, No Cry is a gripping documentary that tells the powerful personal stories of pregnant women and their caregivers in four countries as they try to avoid becoming one of these troubling statistics. Drawn into the issue by her own experiences as a mother, Christy Turlington Burns sets out to see firsthand what can be done to prevent so many women from dying. Turlington Burns has created a moving and visually rich documentary that personalizes the quiet crisis of maternal mortality, putting audiences in the shoes of a young Maasai mother who has gone into labor and must walk five miles to the nearest clinic; a pregnant woman in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh who is too ashamed to seek care; and a pregnant obstetrician helping women who have had no choice but to undergo dangerous illegal abortions in Guatemala. Turlington Burns exposes how even the United States, a country that spends more per capita on health care than any other nation, still has a higher maternal mortality ratio than all of Western Europe as well as Bosnia, Kuwait, Slovenia, and Hungary. Turlington Burns has made an eye-opening activist film that will touch mothers and non-mothers alike.
--David Kwok
April 18, 2010 10:42 PM
KayKay Richemond said:
I want to see this
I want to see this film so badly. I have seen many birth related films and I want to add this to my list. Unfortunately, I live in Florida and I'm on a poor student budget. I wish there was a contest for this film viewing, maybe that way I would have a chance to go to NY and see this film. Or I wish they brought this film to Florida. Well, If anyone wishes to sponsor a nurse-midwifery student to go see this film...I'm here just email me: hrichemond@gmail.com.
April 20, 2010 05:55 AM
Cathleen said:
Keep the awareness in front of the windshield
This film is destined to become part of the awareness movement of this decade. In a time when we have unprecedented technology, we are still losing woman during one of the most fundamental, rudimentary periods of their lives. As a student nurse-midwife, this film speaks to my soul and to the woman in me. Kudos to Christy and her team for keeping the awareness of this devastatingly, preventable heartbreak in our line of vision. Together we can make a difference.
April 20, 2010 07:35 AM
Kate said:
Can't wait to see
I volunteered for 6 months at the organization where Turlington Burns filmed this in Guatemala. The work being done around the world on maternal and reproductive health is amazing. I look forward to seeing my friends and colleagues in this film, but also to the awareness it will bring. Every person who becomes aware is another triumph in the fight for health and equality.
April 24, 2010 12:12 PM
Vicki Elson said:
too little, too much obstetrical intervention
Throughout my career as a US childbirth educator, I've been concerned with cultural exaggeration of the dangers of childbirth and with the overuse of obstetrical intervention. But there are many places in the world where the OPPOSITE problem exists, where women are afraid for good reasons, and where they cannot access medical help when it's needed. I'd like to screen this film back-to-back with my own (www.birth-media.com), followed by a lively discussion! Let's work toward a world where EVERY woman receives APPROPRIATE midwifery/obstetrical care, a world where genital mutilation, poor sanitation, malnutrition, and profit-influenced medicine have disappeared, where the 5% or so who need cesarean sections can get them, and where the vast majority who do not require cesareans are supported through healthy vaginal birth. Thanks for making this film!!
April 24, 2010 07:01 PM
Erica Glennon said:
Honduras
Just got back from Honduras and met lots of women and girls who have their babies at home without medical help. I would have died in childbirth with my first child and so I am very aware of this issue. I went to Honduras with 17 kids from the high school where I teach. Nothing quite like being in a developing nation to get kids to realize how difficult it is for the lives of so many poor around the world
April 30, 2010 07:32 PM
Who are we? said:
How not to help
The world is a large place, not owned by the USA. It's easy and convenient to dabble is the very real issues much of the world faces while ignoring the less photogenic, less fixable issues we have here. It isn't our business to "fix" childbirth, cultural issues or politics worldwide. Start here, with the many nonexistent or nonfunctional families incapable of raising kids in a normal way. How does that happen, why are single teenagers "raising" kids? Then go south where we have some business being, at least attempting to nudge the formerly functioning societies terminated by the Spanish Conquest and later whipsawed by the French, then US Cold War into nations that work for their citizens rather than against them. Should that happen they will be well able to deal with childbirth themselves rather than providing a means for the wealthy of this country to flit about, feeling superior and good about themselves, wielding an eyedropper dispensing bits of "good works" which mostly serve to relieve pressure on corrupt governments cheating 80% of their citizens.
May 01, 2010 08:55 AM
TO: Who are we? said:
How not to help INDEED
Responding to Who are we: Did you even see the film? In no way did the filmmaker suggest that the US must make it their business to "fix childbirth..." etc. The film points out a universal problem that can easily be solved, but it is a problem that is often overlooked. Perhaps the root to the problems you noted stateside of "nonfunctional families incapable of raising kids in a normal way..." can be attributed to the fact that we - not just as Americans, but as human beings - do not put enough value on women. How can one begin to fix issues associated with child rearing if we do not give the proper, healthy attention that all child bearing women deserve? It's all connected - start with the mother so she may be there to care and educate her children. Progress can be seen in generations to come; progress can be quicker if people like you change your attitude. The lack of understanding and judgmental tone on your end is quite embarrassing and very ignorant.
May 19, 2010 06:43 AM
Jane said:
It happens
Well, having the experience to be a mom recenlty here in the US, I too experienced a tough delivery & my health was in ill, after delivery. I lost alot of blood & thanks to a good doctor he saved me..
July 22, 2010 01:29 AM
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