Richmond **Sneak Preview** Screening

About the film:
THESE ARE MY HOURS is a full sensory immersion into one woman's physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual experience of giving birth. It is the first documentary filmed entirely during the course of one one woman's labor, told from her perspective. 

Emily Graham lives in Greenville, South Carolina, where she is about to give birth at home. She trusts herself and her body, and believes she possesses instinctual wisdom for labor.

It's been said: When a child is born, the mother is born too.

THESE ARE MY HOURS presents the ultimate celebration of womanhood by honoring its oldest ritual.

"Whoever watches These Are My Hours becomes a companion, a godparent in this woman's labor, a participant in a small yet enormous slice of life. The film contrasts the true glory of the female body and its muscular and existential potential: Emily is not just a pregnant woman; she is the primal life-giving woman who wishes to do, can do and does do. This is, simply and in all its complexity, experiencing a revelation - of a new person, who will grow up to view the female naked body naturally, with respect and curiosity, in its beauty and ugliness, the way it really is." 
- Leda Galanou, Flix Magazine

"These Are My Hours is the most beautiful, raw and honest birth film I've seen. As a midwife I've seen women give birth so many times. To know there's footage that captures this experience so well makes me beyond grateful. I cannot wait to share this film with my clients." 
- Marjolein Faber, Dutch Midwife

"While other documentaries on birth have faithfully recorded and narrated a wide range of birth stories, Kirschenbaums brings the viewer close to feeling the sensations of birth... This ability to access the physiology of birth through film on the level of the sensory, as opposed to just the visual, is rare." 
- Anna Hennessey, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley

"These Are My Hours represents everything I believe as a woman, mother, midwife, and feminist. I was in tears just a few seconds in, and haven't stopped thinking about it since. We need more tools for the positive birth movement, and this film is the real deal." 
- Margo Blackstone, Co-Director of Indie Birth


Following the film there will be a Q & A with:
Scott Kirschenbaum, Director/Producer
Emily Graham, the subject of the film
Whapio Bartlett, Richmond resident, lead midwifery teacher of The Matrona and member of the Birth Advisory Council for These Are My Hours.http://thematrona.com/

$5 presale or at the door

Doors 6pm
Film 7pm
Q&A 8pm

For more information, please visit:

TheseAreMyHours.com
facebook.com/TheseAreMyHours

To watch the trailer, visit:
https://vimeo.com/212634557

Many thanks in advance...