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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Beverly Shaffer
Script :
Photography :
Joan Hutton
Editor :
Howard Goldberg
Cast :
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TO MY BIRTHMOTHER
On one level, Marie has always known exactly where she comes from -- a warm, devoted family with loving parents and three adopted siblings. It wasn't until she herself gave birth that she realized her babies were the first people she had ever known with a flesh-and-blood relationship to her. She experienced the powerful bond between mother and child and began to wonder about the woman who had "given her up" more than three decades earlier. This film follows Marie as she opens a Pandora's Box of secrets and surprises in her quest to unravel the mystery of her origins. Along the way, she makes an unexpected discovery and finally learns the identity of the person who gave her life.
Beverly Shaffer
Born in Montreal in 1945, Beverly Shaffer took her degree in religion and philosophy at McGill University before deciding on a career in the cinema. After her masters in filmmaking from Boston University, she worked for WGBH-TV in Boston, then returned to Montreal to join the women's studio of the National Film Board. She directed all 10 films of the Children of Canada series, one of which, I'll Find a Way (1977), won an Oscar for best live-action short. Selected filmography: The Way It Is (1982), To a Safer Place (1987), a 7-film series entitled Children of Jerusalem (1994), REFERENDUM -- TAKE 2 (1996) and JUST A WEDDING (1999).
August 23, 2002 • 14:50:00 • PARISIEN • P1.23.4 •
August 24, 2002 • 23:00:00 • PARISIEN • P1.24.8 •
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