''Mama'' () is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Thea Loo.
[Janet Smith, Adrian Mack, Gail Johnson, and Emily Lyth]
"VIFF 2024 reviews: Ruthless drama, monumental sculpture, breathless joyrides, and more"
''Stir'', September 26, 2024. The film profiles the phenomenon of Filipina women who came to Canada under the
Live-In Caregiver Program to support their families, focusing in particular on its impact on their children who were left behind in the Philippines.
It centres principally on the stories of Jeremiah Reyes, Loo's husband and one of the film's cinematographers, and Shirley Lagman, whose mothers were both participants in the program and were thus separated from their children for many years.
[
The film premiered at the 2024 Asian American International Film Festival,][Kelly Townsend]
"Knowledge Network doc Inay to world premiere at AAIFF"
'' Playback'', July 16, 2024. and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival. It is slated for television broadcast on Knowledge Network
Knowledge Network, also branded as British Columbia's Knowledge Network and K:, is a Canadian publicly funded educational cable television network serving the province of British Columbia. It is owned by the Knowledge Network Corporation, a Crow ...
in 2025.[
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Awards
At VIFF, the film won the award for Best British Columbia Film, and received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Documentary award jury.[Gail Johnson]
"Vancouver International Film Festival announces winners of 2024 juried awards"
''Stir'', October 3, 2024.
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2024 films
2024 documentary films
Canadian documentary films
English-language Canadian films
2020s English-language films
2020s Canadian films
Films about Filipino Canadians
English-language documentary films
Kapampangan-language films
Films shot in British Columbia
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