DOCUMENTARY
Deliver Us
producers
Patrick James Lynch & Ryan Gielen
directors
Randi Mitchell, Jenny Callaghan
program partners
National Association to Advance Black Birth (NAABB), Black Futures Foundation, Pinpoint Foundation, Entertainment to Affect Change (E2AC)
Our healthcare system is the most expensive in the industrialized world, yet the most deadly for new mothers. Within this broken system, Black mothers die at three times the rate of White and Hispanic mothers. In fact, a Black mother with a college education is at 60 percent greater risk of maternal death than a white or Hispanic woman with less than a high school education.
Black mothers are dying in childbirth at staggering rates, and in the midst of a global pandemic and a national race reckoning, black midwives around the country are opening birth centers and demanding justice for Black mothers. In Los Angeles, Kimberly Durdin and Allegra Hill, owners of Kindred Space LA, are a part of a growing group of black midwives challenging one of the most complex health care systems in the world by creating solutions for the Black maternal crisis, on their own terms.
As our story unfolds, we meet Black midwives in Detroit, Chicago, and Ferguson, on similar journeys to bring safe and culturally-centered maternal care to communities of color. We watch as they battle complex and racist birthing laws, zoning regulations, and investor drought, all while advocating for Black moms and catching new babies. While this is an incredibly complex and deeply rooted problem within the United States, this film will present accessible Black midwifery care as a powerful and immediate vehicle for change; as well as a way for viewers to get involved and make a difference so that Black mothers will no longer have to fear death after creating life.
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