To Kid or Not to Kid
Year: 2018
Country:
United States
Run Time:
76 minutes
Maxine Trump spent her youth backpacking around the world, working jobs that allowed for travel and adventure and making films along the way. Now in her 40s, with her biological clock ticking, Maxine is turning the camera on herself to answer the age-old question, TO KID OR NOT TO KID… a query more and more women are considering in the modern age. In her profoundly intimate documentary, Maxine consults many women about this life-altering and highly personal decision; some who have kids, some who want kids, some who don’t want kids… even some who regretted having kids. Challenging societal norms, the raw honesty captured in this film helps dispel myths that women can’t be happy without children, or that there’s something wrong with a woman who chooses not to start a family. Will Maxine decide to procreate or will she “come out” to her family and friends as a woman who doesn’t want children? Find out in TO KID OR NOT TO KID. —G.S.
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Maxine Trump
Maxine’s previous award-winning documentary MUSICWOOD, garnered both national and internal distribution, and was released on TV networks around the world and in cinemas throughout America and the UK. It opened to great reviews as a New York Times Critics’ Pick and The Scotsman Critics’ Choice film.
Maxine has made documentaries for numerous networks, including Discovery USA, Sundance Channel, TLC, the BBC, etc. She has also won BDA Promax awards for her commercial work. For Animal Planet she has hosted the long-running TV series Animal Planet Reports. She worked in comedy script development for the BBC for six years before immigrating to the US and brings a comedic and entertaining sensibility to all of her work. She is the author of “Documentary Filmmakers Roadmap” Routledge 2018.
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Musicwood (2012) – CIFF37, TO KID OR NOT TO KID (2018)
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Maxine Trump, Josh Granger
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Maxine Trump, Josh Granger
Helpman Productions
http://tokidornottokid.com
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