…that’s why He made momma

Institute History

  • 2023 Sundance Documentary Film Grant

Description

As they realize they could lose their matriarch’s home, a brother and sister turn the camera on their great-grandmother and her nine descendants in order to reimagine their family’s legacy. As the siblings sift through memories and history, they chronicle the ingenuity of generational single black motherhood and grapple with its inheritance.

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