#80: Director Loira Limbal’s Heartfelt Homage to Working Mothers

05/08/2022 22 min
#80: Director Loira Limbal’s Heartfelt Homage to Working Mothers

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Episode Synopsis

“I felt like I don't have to tell you how brutal racial capitalism is in the United States if I am showing you. I wanted capitalism to indict itself in the film.”

-- director and producer Loira Limbal

In her 2022 duPont Award-winning documentary “Through the Night,” filmmaker Loira Limbal intimately captured the burdens on working mothers and puts a mirror to America’s daycare system, reflecting back the darker sides of capitalism.

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