28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Happy Mother´s Day
director: Joyce Chopra, Richard Leacock
original title: Happy Mother´s Day
country: United States
year: 1963
running time: 30 min.
synopsis
This controversial film has provoked a discussion about manipulating the audience's opinion. It pretends to lay out the objective events surrounding a birth of quintuplets, while in reality putting forward a meticulously thought-out piece, prompting the viewer to wake up to the absurdity of the campaign. The film strives for committed objectivity rather than comprehensiveness.
biography
Richard Leacock (1921-2011), who worked with Robert Flaherty in his youth, was known first as an experimenter and later primarily as a cameraman at Drew Associates, practicing the concept of “live camera”.
more about film
director: | Joyce Chopra, Richard Leacock |
producer: | Donn Alan Pennebaker, Richard Leacock |
photography: | Richard Leacock |
editing: | Richard Leacock, Joyce Chopra |
sound: | Joyce Chopra |