Date and Time
Sat, November 4, 2023
@ 1:30pm
Location
Regal LA Live: Theater 13
America’s medical inequities has turned giving birth into a battlefield for too many Black women and their babies. BIRTHING JUSTICE flips that narrative, centering the expertise and lived experiences of Black women and their advocates as they fix a broken system and transform the future, one birth at a time.
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 1 hr 26 min
Directed by: Monique N. Matthews
About the Director(s)
Monique N. Matthews is a Los Angeles-based writer and director. Prior to this, Matthews, a Harlem, USA native, was an entertainment journalist and managing editor of a national hip-hop magazine. Matthew's work has appeared in Ebony.com, Vibe, The Source, Slam, TV Guide and Rap Pages. She has also been a guest panelist on NPR's "Tell Me More." Matthews transitioned into filmmaking after graduating from the UCLA School of Film and Television. She has written for several studios including MGM, Walt Disney Pictures and Paramount Pictures. Matthews has received several accolades, including Daily Variety's "10 Writers to Watch", and was a two-time lab fellow in Film Independent's prestigious Directors and Writers Labs. Matthews was recently a semi-finalist in Sundance New Voices. Matthews's journey as a filmmaker began with "It Looks Just Like You" (2010), an awareness commercial about breast cancer, which she wrote and directed, starring Omari Hardwick ("Power"). It has amassed nearly 800,000 views on YouTube. Monique's recent work includes writing "A Holiday In Harlem" (2021), for the Hallmark Channel, for which she received a 2022 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Television Movie.
Film Info
Trailer: | https://vimeo.com/699862709/a447dde684 |
Release Year: | 05-Jan-23 |
Country: | United States |
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