Name
Company
Country
Leave us a note
Victoria Mapplebeck
UK 2024 90' 55'
⚬ Human Interest
BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck turned the camera on herself when she found herself single, pregnant, and broke at 38. Shot over almost two decades, MOTHERBOARD is a celebration of messy lives, single parenthood, and proof that epic journeys can begin and end at home.
"Tender, intimate, funny and entirely absorbing" - The Guardian
"A candid, unsentimental, perceptive and profoundly moving portrait of the highs and lows of motherhood" - Screen Daily
"Keeps you watching spellbound" - Business Doc Europe
Director | Victoria Mapplebeck |
Producer | Victoria Mapplebeck |
Executive Producer | Debbie Manners |
Associate Producer | Carol Nahra |
Production Company | First Person Films |
Cinematography | Victoria Mapplebeck |
Writer | Victoria Mapplebeck |
Editors | Oli Bauer, Victoria Mapplebeck |
Music | Jamie Perera |
Sound | John Wakefield |
Creative Consultant | Jim Mapplebeck |
Edit Consultants | David Arthur, Emiliano Battista, Isidore Bethal, Clare Ferguson, Shamira Raphaëla |
Best Feature Documentary Shortlist | IDA Documentary Awards |
Director Award | Women in Film and TV 2024 |
CPH:DOX 2024 |
Bergen International Film Festival 2024 |
London Film Festival 2024 |
International Female FF Malmö 2024 |
Zagrebdox 2025 |
| Runtime | 90' 55' |
| Spoken Langauge | English |
| Production Countries | UK |
Victoria Mapplebeck is a BAFTA award winning artist and director, who has worked in film, VR and immersive audio. Her works explore autobiographical stories which ask universal questions about our relationship with technology, parenting, health and wellbeing. Victoria has spent the last decade filming her first smartphone feature doc MOTHERBOARD and is passionate about the innovation, intimacy and diversity of smartphone filmmaking.
