Starring
Winner Best Actor Yavapai College
Sedona Film School Film Festival
Sedona Film School Film Festival
When a single lesbian mom's only son is about to leave for college, he complicates her heartbreak and struggle to let him go by telling her he's selling marijuana to ease her financial pressure.
While the film is about many dynamics-single motherhood, caretaking, masculine identity, lesbian parenting, and the almost unbearable pain of separating from one's child, it is most importantly about the feminine type of heroism that is generally completely unrecognized and undervalued, an example of which is letting one's beloved children be free and independent regardless of how heart-breaking it is for the parent and without holding them back with guilt or personal need.
While the film is about many dynamics-single motherhood, caretaking, masculine identity, lesbian parenting, and the almost unbearable pain of separating from one's child, it is most importantly about the feminine type of heroism that is generally completely unrecognized and undervalued, an example of which is letting one's beloved children be free and independent regardless of how heart-breaking it is for the parent and without holding them back with guilt or personal need.
See the full short film on Vimeo at:
The Fifth Stage of Labor
Contact Cynthia Lubow, Writer, Director, Editor at
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The Fifth Stage of Labor
Contact Cynthia Lubow, Writer, Director, Editor at
[email protected]
New Filmmakers interview with Cyn and Emilie Talbot, Marc Maynon, and Rachel Garlin
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