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MOTHERBOARD

Victoria Mapplebeck
UK 2024    90' 55'
⚬ Human Interest 

Synopsis

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.

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"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

Credits

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

"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

 

"masters the art of single-parenting and self-filming" - High on Films

 

"an utterly remarkable achievement" - Cinamore

 

"something of a miracle" - Hindustan Times

 

Awards

Best Feature Documentary Shortlist

IDA Documentary Awards

Director Award

Women in Film and TV 2024

 

Festivals

CPH:DOX 2024

Bergen International Film Festival 2024

London Film Festival 2024

International Female FF Malmö 2024

 

Film Details

Runtime 90' 55'
Spoken Langauge English
Production Countries UK

Biography

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.

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