News & Press News & Press November 14, 2024“The Tree Can Still Bear Fruit”: Laurie Townshend Discusses Her Staceyann Chin Doc ‘A Mother Apart’"After I did years of work around my own healing, I began to see my mother’s leaving me was perhaps the first wound." November 13, 2024DOC NYC Heats Up with Oscar Contenders and World Premieres"poet and activist Staceyann Chin’s deeply personal study of what it means to be both a mother and a daughter" October 23, 2024‘A Mother Apart’: Staceyann Chin’s beautiful exploration of being a mother, when her own mother abandoned her"Laurie Townshend has brilliantly constructed an exploration of Chin's intentional parenting" October 18, 2024Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2024 Awardees"as much a film about one inspirational mother figure as it is about all those who mother or have been mothered." October 17, 2024Jules Rosskam’s Desire Lines Wins Top Prize at Vancouver Queer Film Festival"It’s a film about all of us—and our capacity for grace and for healing in the face of wounding." October 16, 2024Vancouver Queer Film Festival Awards $57,500 in Prizes to 2SLGBTQIA+ Filmmakers"What an honour it is to be the People’s Choice." October 16, 2024Vancouver Queer Film Festival awards $57,500 in prize"winners included Laurie Townshend’s A Mother Apart," October 11, 2024Sinead O’Shea’s ‘Blue Road–The Edna O’Brien Story’ Launches 15th DOC NYC Lineup"a journey of healing, self-discovery, and familial connection in this authentic and moving exploration of forgiveness and family." October 10, 2024DOC NYC to Open with Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story"Director Laurie Townshend’s award-winning portrait of poet Stacyann Chin" September 16, 2024Film review: A Mother Apart unpacks a painful legacy of abandonment at Vancouver Queer Film Festival"Chin has an extraordinary talent for articulating the way that abandonment shaped her. " Load More Fake Button - please ignore - don't delete
November 14, 2024“The Tree Can Still Bear Fruit”: Laurie Townshend Discusses Her Staceyann Chin Doc ‘A Mother Apart’"After I did years of work around my own healing, I began to see my mother’s leaving me was perhaps the first wound."
November 13, 2024DOC NYC Heats Up with Oscar Contenders and World Premieres"poet and activist Staceyann Chin’s deeply personal study of what it means to be both a mother and a daughter"
October 23, 2024‘A Mother Apart’: Staceyann Chin’s beautiful exploration of being a mother, when her own mother abandoned her"Laurie Townshend has brilliantly constructed an exploration of Chin's intentional parenting"
October 18, 2024Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2024 Awardees"as much a film about one inspirational mother figure as it is about all those who mother or have been mothered."
October 17, 2024Jules Rosskam’s Desire Lines Wins Top Prize at Vancouver Queer Film Festival"It’s a film about all of us—and our capacity for grace and for healing in the face of wounding."
October 16, 2024Vancouver Queer Film Festival Awards $57,500 in Prizes to 2SLGBTQIA+ Filmmakers"What an honour it is to be the People’s Choice."
October 16, 2024Vancouver Queer Film Festival awards $57,500 in prize"winners included Laurie Townshend’s A Mother Apart,"
October 11, 2024Sinead O’Shea’s ‘Blue Road–The Edna O’Brien Story’ Launches 15th DOC NYC Lineup"a journey of healing, self-discovery, and familial connection in this authentic and moving exploration of forgiveness and family."
October 10, 2024DOC NYC to Open with Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story"Director Laurie Townshend’s award-winning portrait of poet Stacyann Chin"
September 16, 2024Film review: A Mother Apart unpacks a painful legacy of abandonment at Vancouver Queer Film Festival"Chin has an extraordinary talent for articulating the way that abandonment shaped her. "
