On Mother’s Day
An intimate look at how mass incarceration impacts a mother on Mother’s Day.
Featuring Anita Wills and Kerry Baxter, Sr.
(Documentary, TRT: 6 minutes, 29 seconds)
Director: Ellie Wen
Producer: Ellie Wen
Cinematographer: Ellie Wen
Editor: Ellie Wen
Sound Recordist: Whitney Legge
Composer: Daniel Walter
Sound Mixer: Dan Olmsted, Erik Reimers
Colorist: Peter Swartz
(Produced in the Documentary Film MFA Program at Stanford University)
Festivals & Honors:
Now Streaming on The New Yorker, 2021
Best Local Filmmaker Award, UN Women Global Voices Film Festival, 2019
Documentary Short Winner, Oakland Short Film Festival, 2019
Finalist, FOLCS International Short Film Competition, 2019
March on Washington Film Festival, 2019
Oakland International Film Festival, 2019
Black Harvest Film Festival, 2019
Still Voices Short Film Festival, 2019
BASH - Bay Area Shorts Film Festival, 2019
San Francisco Black Film Festival, 2019
National Black Film Festival, 2019
Pan African Film Festival, 2019