28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Happy Mother´s Day
Happy Mother´s Day

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
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