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An animated film celebrating Childbirth and Midwifery
‘Mother of Many’ is a celebration of Midwifery and childbirth. Inspired by director, Emma Lazenby’s mum, Pam, a midwife for thirty years and catcher of around 4000 babies. The film is based around the rhythms of a baby inside the womb and of the rhythms and day to day routine of the midwife, being calm and controlled, leading women through the most life changing and challenging day of their lives.
It was made using real recordings of childbirths and fetal heartbeats, combining painting on glass, hand drawn and computer animation to create a very illustrative style.
BAFTA award winner for the Short Animated film award 2010
Emma planned to retrain as a midwife and follow in her mums footsteps, but realising the power of animation for health education started ForMed Films CIC in 2015 -a not-for-profit, making animated films in collaboration with patients, charities and health professionals to help people talk about and understand medical and health issues.
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'Mother of Many' is a film celebrating of midwifery and childbirth. Made for channel 4 in 2009, BAFTA winning in 2010, the film has been shared and show with midwives, parents-to-be, teenagers and children as a clear representation of birth.
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| Contributed by: | ForMed Films - animated films for health education |
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| Licence: | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 14 December 2022 |
| First contributed: | 06 December 2022 |
| Audience access level: | Full user |
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