STV presents one-off documentary – The August Years of May and Gloria The Story of a True Scottish ‘Homecoming’
On Monday 24 May, STV will air a special one-off documentary, charting a mother and daughter’s journey, as they learn to cope with the mother’s progressing Alzheimer’s disease, in The August Years of May and Gloria.
Scottish-born 82-year-old May and her daughter Gloria (59) have lived in Canada for many years. The August Years is a compassionate and intimate documentary which tells their heart-warming, humorous and often difficult story as they make the decision to move away from loved ones in Canada and back to the family they left behind in Scotland.
After the death of her father, Gloria moved in with her mother May to “look after her”. It soon becomes clear that widow and divorcee, Gloria, needs May just as much as May needs her.
Even when faced with the prospect of leaving Canada, the onset of Alzheimer’s and old age, May remains touchingly upbeat, full of life and laughter throughout the programme. Only when the reality of leaving Canada, her husband’s grave, and her beloved budgie hits May, do we see her break down. As everyone gathers to say goodbye, Gloria’s sacrifices are clearly shown as she leaves children and grand-children behind to join her sister in Edinburgh.
The August Years of May and Gloria, shows the audience there can be humour and happiness in everyone’s “august years”. Viewers will see first hand the love and respect May and Gloria have for each other, but also the resentment that can grow on both sides. By their own admission they are like “a married couple” and their tears, laughter and memories and shared in this special documentary.
It is the story of a true Scottish ‘homecoming’.
May’s daughter Gloria speaks candidly about their relationship: “If you had told me years ago I would be spending all this time with my mother, I would have said no-way, no. But we did. I was a widow and she was a widow. She needed me and I needed her.”
Elizabeth Partyka, Channel Controller for STV, said: “The August Years of May and Gloria is an absolutely compelling story and I’m thrilled that we’re showing it on STV. The vibrant personalities of these two women draw the audience in. I am sure that many of our viewers will identify with the themes and emotions that are at the heart of this documentary. Director and Producer Maureen Judge is an internationally respected programme maker and it is exciting for STV to have an international documentary of this standard premiering on STV.”
The August Years of May and Gloria is a Makin’ Movies Production for STV. It was produced and directed by Maureen Judge.
THE AUGUST YEARS OF MAY AND GLORIA IS ON STV AT 8PM ON MONDAY 24th MAY
Catch up with The August Years of May and Gloria at www.stv.tv/player.
STV Press Office
Kirstin Stevenson, 0141 300 3670 or kirstin.stevenson@stv.tv. Anna Hendry, 0141 300 3830 or anna.hendry@stv.tv
TVO and KNOWLEDGE present documentary MOM’S HOME For press inquiries, contact
Angela Garde, TVO Communications: 416.484.2600 x 2305 agarde@tvo.org
For some daughters, every day is ‘Mother’s Day’ The latest feature doc from award-winner Maureen Judge ‘Mom’s Home’ Premieres on TVO May 5, 2010 and Knowledge Network, May 10 (just in time for Mother’s Day)
**Screeners available upon request ** Available for interviews: Producer/Director Maureen Judge March 24, 2010. Toronto. Maureen Judge (FLicKeR, Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship), the award-winning documentarian, in association with TVO, presents Mom’s Home, the final in her vérité documentary trilogy, exploring themes of love, betrayal and acceptance in parent/ (adult) child relationships. The first two instalments are Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship) and In My Parents’ Basement.
Society is changing. People are living longer, but due to health trouble, death/divorce or housing costs, many parents are moving in with their adult children creating two and three generation households. With 90 per cent of all seniors in Canada still living in the community and 80 per cent of them being cared for by close relatives and friends, the documentary charts the emotional territory of a widespread trend. The recent Statistics Canada census found 450,000 grandparents living with their children.
Mom’s Home is a funny, compassionate and tension fraught one-hour documentary about aging mothers who move in with their grown daughters. We follow three pairs of mothers and daughters, May (82) and Gloria (58), Harrian (69) and Charmaine (42), and Pam (68) and Liz (41), who, despite their life experience, are still wrestling with their conflicting emotions, difficulties and sometimes ill-fated commitment to do ‘what’s best’.
“The film intimately documents the myriad of social adjustments and changing expectations that come into play when the mothers and daughters find their roles reversed and Mom becomes reliant on her adult daughters,” says Judge.
Mom’s Home premieres on Wednesday, May 5, 10 pm (ET) on TVO’s “The View From Here”, May 6, 1 am (ET), and May 9, 10:30 pm (ET).
On the Knowledge Network, it airs Monday, May 10, 10 pm (PT) and Tuesday, May 11, 11 pm (PT).
Mom’s Home is produced by Maureen Judge; with cinematography by Gemini award-winning Harald Bachman (FLicKeR, In My Parents’ Basement); editing by three-time Gemini winner Deborah Palloway (Fire and Water and Rape: A Crime of War); multi award-winning Aaron Davis as composer; the commissioning editor, TVO is Jane Jankovic.
Mom’s Home is produced by Makin Movies in association with TVO, Knowledge Network, SCN, Rogers Documentary Fund, The Canadian Television Fund, The Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit, and The Ontario Film & Television Tax Credit.
About the Filmmaker
Maureen Judge was nominated for a 2009 Gemini Award as producer of the documentary FLicKeR, winner of the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs Film Festival and Best Film in the International Films on Art Competition at the Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland. Other films by Judge include those in the vérité documentary trilogy she produced and directed on parent/ (adult) child relationships: the Genie-winner Unveiled; The Mother Daughter Relationship,; the award-winning In My Parents’ Basement; and the newest film, Mom’s Home. Judge also directed the Chris Award winning NFB film, And We Knew How To Dance: Women and WWI and was the creator/producer (and a director) of the award-winning television series, Family Secrets. She is currently developing a documentary series, Edges of Love, which was recently awarded assistance by Canwest-Hot Docs Development Fund.
For more information on Maureen Judge and Mom’s Home including trailers and dowloadable art, please visit www.makinmovies.tv
About TVO TVO is Ontario’s public educational media organization and a trusted source of interactive educational content that informs, inspires and stimulates curiosity and thought. TVO’s vision is to empower people to be engaged citizens of Ontario through educational media. For more information, visit tvo.org.
Where to find TVO Cable channel 2 (channel may vary in some areas), Bell TV channel 265, Shaw Direct channel 353.
Makin’ Movies Presents In Association with TVO, Knowledge Network and SCN – Mom’s Home
Produced and Directed by Maureen Judge
Mom’s Home is an intimate, compassionate and humorous documentary about aging mothers who move in with their adult daughters. The vérité film follows three pairs of mothers and daughters, who, despite their life experience, are still wrestling with their conflicting emotions, difficulties and sometimes ill-fated commitment to do ‘what’s best’. The film captures the myriad of social adjustments and changing expectations that come into play when the mothers and daughters find their roles reversed and Mom is now reliant on her ‘child’.
May (82) and Gloria (58): These two feisty Scottish lassies decided to move in together for the long haul after May’s husband passed away. They live in a little house on a hill in a small Southern Ontario town , they don’t have much money and Gloria works three days a week as a cook to support them. With May in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s, the pair navigates through life as if they are on an extended vacation, not knowing where it may lead. But as each day becomes more of a struggle, Gloria decides to uproot them and take her mother home to Scotland.
Harrian (69) and Charmaine (42): Harrian is in the process of moving into her youngest daughter, Charmaine’s house. Harrian was living with her son for fifteen years, but he didn’t want her there anymore and, in an effort to push her out, made her life unbearable. Realizing her Mom was both hurt and bewildered, single-Mom Charmaine stepped in with emotional support and persuaded Harrian to come and live with her and her two teenage daughters. Harrian is not sure how long she’ll last.
Pam (68) and Liz (41): Pam moved in with Liz when Liz and her husband needed financial help buying their first house. Six months later, Liz and her husband separated, sold the house and divorced. So Pam remained with her and the children. After living with Liz for 11 years, Pam would like her freedom back…before she’s 70. And, in the next couple of years, Liz intends to build a house and marry her boyfriend. Moving apart to go in separate directions is, ironically, a shared dream Pam and Liz are desperately holding onto. They both feel they’re missing out on living and yet can’t seem to dig their way out of their current lives.
Mom’s Home is an entertaining and provocative film and captures the hearts and minds of viewers who are in the process of coming to terms with their aging mothers. And their children will be drawn to watching the recognizable family dramas as the film cuts through the mire of the mother/daughter bond.
Director’s Statement – Maureen Judge
The August Years of May and Gloria and Mom’s Home were born out of my passionate interest in the impact family relationships have on our lives. The August Years of May and Gloria/Mom’s Home is the third film in a vérité, character-driven documentary trilogy on love, betrayal and acceptance in parent/adult child relationships. It began with Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship, a film about the dynamic bond between mothers and their young adult daughters, filmed while they are in the throes of planning weddings; and was followed by In My Parents’ Basement, a raw, intimate exploration on adult children returning home to live.
With The August Years of May and Gloria and Mom’s Home I turned the lens on an aging mother and daughter who move in together, as much out of necessity as choice. The story is dramatic and resonant, and portray a relationship that echoes the pain of loneliness, aging and the difficult financial circumstances experienced by many single, widowed and divorced women who make up a large percentage of our aging population.
And, to add insult to injury, the older women’s role as mother has been flipped on its head and she finds herself dependent on her daughter. Meanwhile, the next generation is not getting any younger. The daughter’s health is failing she can’t earn enough to look after the two of them. She’s overcome by anxiety and guilt over what to do next. And yet, in spite of it all, their lives are made bearable by the joy, humour and love the pair shares with us in their journey through middle and later life.
Biography – Maureen Judge
Maureen Judge is an award-winning producer and director. As a producer, her most recent production FLicKeR has played theatrically in Canada and has been screened at festivals around the world, including Sheffield Documentary Festival, Cork Film Festival, Copenhagen Film Festival, Leipzig Documentary Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival. FLicKeR is the winner of the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs Film Festival (2008) and the Best Film in the International Films on Art Competition at the Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland (2009), and Judge received a 2009 Gemini nomination for FLicKeR.
Other films by Ms. Judge include the vérité documentary trilogy which she produced and directed. These films explore the themes of love, betrayal and acceptance in parent/ (adult) child relationships: Unveiled; The Mother Daughter Relationship, honoured with a multiplicity of awards, including a Genie from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television; the award-winning In My Parents’ Basement; and the new and final film in the trilogy, The August Yars of may and Gloria.
Ms. Judge also directed the Chris Award winning NFB film, And We Knew How To Dance: Women and WWI. Judge is creator/producer and director of the award-winning television series, Family Secrets and the co-creator and producer/director of Bravo Television series, Heart of a Poet.
Ms. Judge has a Master’s Degree in Cinema Studies from New York University and has taught at York University, Humber College and Sheridan College. She is currently developing a new documentary entitled, Edges of Love, which was awarded assistance by the Canwest-Hot Docs Development Fund.
filmography
The August Years of May and Gloria (53 min.) Director/Producer, 2010 Mom’s Home (72 min.), Director/Producer, 2010 FlicKeR (72 min), Producer, 2008 (Makin’ Movies in co-production with the NFB) *Special Jury Award, Canadian Feature Documentary: Hot Docs Film Festival (2008) *Best Film in the International Films on Art Competition at the Era New Horizons Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland *Gemini Nomination for producing Best Performing Arts or Arts Documentary, Canada Heart of a Poet I&II (TV series 26X30 min), Exec. Producer and Co-Creator/Producer/Director 2005-2007 Family Secrets I&II (TV series12X30 min) Creator/Producer/Director, 2002-2004 *Gold Award: Documentary Series, Worldfest Houston International Film Fest. (2004) *Honorable Mention, Documentary Film, Columbus Film Festival: When Nobody’s Looking (2003-2005) *Bronze Finalist: Documentary Series, Telly Awards (2003) In My Parents’ Basement (60 min), Producer/Writer/Director, 2000-2002 *Silver Award: Documentary Category, Houston Film Festival (2002) Unveiled:The Mother/Daughter Relationship (60 min) Co-Producer and Writer/Director, 1997 (Makin' Movies in co-production with the NFB) *GENIE Award: Best Short Documentary, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (1997) *Gold Award: Social/Political Documentary, Chicago Film Festival, INTERCOM (1997) *Honourable Mention: Social Issues, Columbus International Film & Video Festival (1997) *Finalist Award: Documentary Worldfest Houston International Film Festival (1998) * Hot Docs Award Nomination: Social/Political Documentary (1998) And We Knew How To Dance: Women and WWI (60 min), Director/Researcher, 1993, Produced by the NFB *Chris Award: Best Documentary Film: Social Issues, Columbus Int. Festival (1994) Altered Ego (60 min), Writer/Director/Editor, 1991 Unnatural Causes: A Lillian Allen Poem (6 min), Director/Editor, 1990, Produced by the NFB, Studio D A Venerable Occasion (30 min), Writer/Director/Editor, 1986 Family Business (30 min), Writer/Director/Editor, 1984
Short Bios for Key Creatives on The August Years of May and Gloria…
Producer/Director – Maureen Judge (see full biography)
Director of Photography – Harald Bachmann Harald Bachman is a Gemini award-winning DP and has worked with Maureen Judge on several films, including FLicKeR, In My Parents’ Basement and Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship. Over a twenty year career, Harald has shot hundreds of film and television projects including the award-winning documentary The Plague Monkeys and dramas, Curtis’ Charm and Save My Lost Nigga Soul .
Editor – Deborah Palloway Deborah Palloway is a three-time Gemini winner and specializes in social documentary projects. She has worked extensively with director, Shelley Saywell on films including: A Child’s Century of War; Fire and Water; and Rape: A Crime of War. Deborah also has a passion for editing arts documentaries and recently edited Moving to Music, The two Muses of Guillaume Cote.
Composer – Aaron Davis Aaron Davis is an eclectic multi award-winning composer, arranger and keyboardist, and orchestral arranger for jazz singer Holly Cole. In addition to working closely with Maureen Judge for over fifteen years, Aaron has worked with many of the country’s leading documentary and drama directors including Clement Virgo and Christian Bauer.
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Wednesday 19th May 2010
STV presents one-off documentary – The August Years of May and Gloria
The Story of a True Scottish ‘Homecoming’
On Monday 24 May, STV will air a special one-off documentary, charting a mother and daughter’s journey, as they learn to cope with the mother’s progressing Alzheimer’s disease, in The August Years of May and Gloria.
Scottish-born 82-year-old May and her daughter Gloria (59) have lived in Canada for many years. The August Years is a compassionate and intimate documentary which tells their heart-warming, humorous and often difficult story as they make the decision to move away from loved ones in Canada and back to the family they left behind in Scotland.
After the death of her father, Gloria moved in with her mother May to “look after her”. It soon becomes clear that widow and divorcee, Gloria, needs May just as much as May needs her.
Even when faced with the prospect of leaving Canada, the onset of Alzheimer’s and old age, May remains touchingly upbeat, full of life and laughter throughout the programme. Only when the reality of leaving Canada, her husband’s grave, and her beloved budgie hits May, do we see her break down. As everyone gathers to say goodbye, Gloria’s sacrifices are clearly shown as she leaves children and grand-children behind to join her sister in Edinburgh.
The August Years of May and Gloria, shows the audience there can be humour and happiness in everyone’s “august years”. Viewers will see first hand the love and respect May and Gloria have for each other, but also the resentment that can grow on both sides. By their own admission they are like “a married couple” and their tears, laughter and memories and shared in this special documentary.
It is the story of a true Scottish ‘homecoming’.
May’s daughter Gloria speaks candidly about their relationship: “If you had told me years ago I would be spending all this time with my mother, I would have said no-way, no. But we did. I was a widow and she was a widow. She needed me and I needed her.”
Elizabeth Partyka, Channel Controller for STV, said: “The August Years of May and Gloria is an absolutely compelling story and I’m thrilled that we’re showing it on STV. The vibrant personalities of these two women draw the audience in. I am sure that many of our viewers will identify with the themes and emotions that are at the heart of this documentary. Director and Producer Maureen Judge is an internationally respected programme maker and it is exciting for STV to have an international documentary of this standard premiering on STV.”
The August Years of May and Gloria is a Makin’ Movies Production for STV. It was produced and directed by Maureen Judge.
THE AUGUST YEARS OF MAY AND GLORIA IS ON STV AT 8PM ON MONDAY 24th MAY
Catch up with The August Years of May and Gloria at www.stv.tv/player.
STV Press Office
Kirstin Stevenson, 0141 300 3670 or kirstin.stevenson@stv.tv.
Anna Hendry, 0141 300 3830 or anna.hendry@stv.tv
TVO and KNOWLEDGE present documentary MOM’S HOME For press inquiries, contact
Cynthia Amsden, Roundstone Communications: 416.910.7740 roundstone@gmail.com
Angela Garde, TVO Communications: 416.484.2600 x 2305 agarde@tvo.org
For some daughters, every day is ‘Mother’s Day’
The latest feature doc from award-winner Maureen Judge
‘Mom’s Home’
Premieres on TVO May 5, 2010 and Knowledge Network, May 10
(just in time for Mother’s Day)
**Screeners available upon request
** Available for interviews: Producer/Director Maureen Judge
March 24, 2010. Toronto. Maureen Judge (FLicKeR, Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship), the award-winning documentarian, in association with TVO, presents Mom’s Home, the final in her vérité documentary trilogy, exploring themes of love, betrayal and acceptance in parent/ (adult) child relationships. The first two instalments are Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship) and In My Parents’ Basement.
Society is changing. People are living longer, but due to health trouble, death/divorce or housing costs, many parents are moving in with their adult children creating two and three generation households. With 90 per cent of all seniors in Canada still living in the community and 80 per cent of them being cared for by close relatives and friends, the documentary charts the emotional territory of a widespread trend. The recent Statistics Canada census found 450,000 grandparents living with their children.
Mom’s Home is a funny, compassionate and tension fraught one-hour documentary about aging mothers who move in with their grown daughters. We follow three pairs of mothers and daughters, May (82) and Gloria (58), Harrian (69) and Charmaine (42), and Pam (68) and Liz (41), who, despite their life experience, are still wrestling with their conflicting emotions, difficulties and sometimes ill-fated commitment to do ‘what’s best’.
“The film intimately documents the myriad of social adjustments and changing expectations that come into play when the mothers and daughters find their roles reversed and Mom becomes reliant on her adult daughters,” says Judge.
Mom’s Home premieres on Wednesday, May 5, 10 pm (ET) on TVO’s “The View From Here”, May 6, 1 am (ET), and May 9, 10:30 pm (ET).
On the Knowledge Network, it airs Monday, May 10, 10 pm (PT) and Tuesday, May 11, 11 pm (PT).
Mom’s Home is produced by Maureen Judge; with cinematography by Gemini award-winning Harald Bachman (FLicKeR, In My Parents’ Basement); editing by three-time Gemini winner Deborah Palloway (Fire and Water and Rape: A Crime of War); multi award-winning Aaron Davis as composer; the commissioning editor, TVO is Jane Jankovic.
Mom’s Home is produced by Makin Movies in association with TVO, Knowledge Network, SCN, Rogers Documentary Fund, The Canadian Television Fund, The Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit, and The Ontario Film & Television Tax Credit.
About the Filmmaker
Maureen Judge was nominated for a 2009 Gemini Award as producer of the documentary FLicKeR, winner of the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs Film Festival and Best Film in the International Films on Art Competition at the Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland. Other films by Judge include those in the vérité documentary trilogy she produced and directed on parent/ (adult) child relationships: the Genie-winner Unveiled; The Mother Daughter Relationship,; the award-winning In My Parents’ Basement; and the newest film, Mom’s Home. Judge also directed the Chris Award winning NFB film, And We Knew How To Dance: Women and WWI and was the creator/producer (and a director) of the award-winning television series, Family Secrets. She is currently developing a documentary series, Edges of Love, which was recently awarded assistance by Canwest-Hot Docs Development Fund.
For more information on Maureen Judge and Mom’s Home including trailers and dowloadable art, please visit www.makinmovies.tv
About TVO
TVO is Ontario’s public educational media organization and a trusted source of interactive educational content that informs, inspires and stimulates curiosity and thought. TVO’s vision is to empower people to be engaged citizens of Ontario through educational media. For more information, visit tvo.org.
Where to find TVO
Cable channel 2 (channel may vary in some areas), Bell TV channel 265, Shaw Direct channel 353.
Makin’ Movies Presents In Association with TVO, Knowledge Network and SCN – Mom’s Home
Produced and Directed by Maureen Judge
Mom’s Home is an intimate, compassionate and humorous documentary about aging mothers who move in with their adult daughters. The vérité film follows three pairs of mothers and daughters, who, despite their life experience, are still wrestling with their conflicting emotions, difficulties and sometimes ill-fated commitment to do ‘what’s best’. The film captures the myriad of social adjustments and changing expectations that come into play when the mothers and daughters find their roles reversed and Mom is now reliant on her ‘child’.
May (82) and Gloria (58): These two feisty Scottish lassies decided to move in together for the long haul after May’s husband passed away. They live in a little house on a hill in a small Southern Ontario town , they don’t have much money and Gloria works three days a week as a cook to support them. With May in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s, the pair navigates through life as if they are on an extended vacation, not knowing where it may lead. But as each day becomes more of a struggle, Gloria decides to uproot them and take her mother home to Scotland.
Harrian (69) and Charmaine (42): Harrian is in the process of moving into her youngest daughter, Charmaine’s house. Harrian was living with her son for fifteen years, but he didn’t want her there anymore and, in an effort to push her out, made her life unbearable. Realizing her Mom was both hurt and bewildered, single-Mom Charmaine stepped in with emotional support and persuaded Harrian to come and live with her and her two teenage daughters. Harrian is not sure how long she’ll last.
Pam (68) and Liz (41): Pam moved in with Liz when Liz and her husband needed financial help buying their first house. Six months later, Liz and her husband separated, sold the house and divorced. So Pam remained with her and the children. After living with Liz for 11 years, Pam would like her freedom back…before she’s 70. And, in the next couple of years, Liz intends to build a house and marry her boyfriend. Moving apart to go in separate directions is, ironically, a shared dream Pam and Liz are desperately holding onto. They both feel they’re missing out on living and yet can’t seem to dig their way out of their current lives.
Mom’s Home is an entertaining and provocative film and captures the hearts and minds of viewers who are in the process of coming to terms with their aging mothers. And their children will be drawn to watching the recognizable family dramas as the film cuts through the mire of the mother/daughter bond.
Director’s Statement – Maureen Judge
The August Years of May and Gloria and Mom’s Home were born out of my passionate interest in the impact family relationships have on our lives. The August Years of May and Gloria/Mom’s Home is the third film in a vérité, character-driven documentary trilogy on love, betrayal and acceptance in parent/adult child relationships. It began with Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship, a film about the dynamic bond between mothers and their young adult daughters, filmed while they are in the throes of planning weddings; and was followed by In My Parents’ Basement, a raw, intimate exploration on adult children returning home to live.
With The August Years of May and Gloria and Mom’s Home I turned the lens on an aging mother and daughter who move in together, as much out of necessity as choice. The story is dramatic and resonant, and portray a relationship that echoes the pain of loneliness, aging and the difficult financial circumstances experienced by many single, widowed and divorced women who make up a large percentage of our aging population.
And, to add insult to injury, the older women’s role as mother has been flipped on its head and she finds herself dependent on her daughter. Meanwhile, the next generation is not getting any younger. The daughter’s health is failing she can’t earn enough to look after the two of them. She’s overcome by anxiety and guilt over what to do next. And yet, in spite of it all, their lives are made bearable by the joy, humour and love the pair shares with us in their journey through middle and later life.
Biography – Maureen Judge
Maureen Judge is an award-winning producer and director. As a producer, her most recent production FLicKeR has played theatrically in Canada and has been screened at festivals around the world, including Sheffield Documentary Festival, Cork Film Festival, Copenhagen Film Festival, Leipzig Documentary Festival and the Vancouver International Film Festival. FLicKeR is the winner of the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary, Hot Docs Film Festival (2008) and the Best Film in the International Films on Art Competition at the Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland (2009), and Judge received a 2009 Gemini nomination for FLicKeR.
Other films by Ms. Judge include the vérité documentary trilogy which she produced and directed. These films explore the themes of love, betrayal and acceptance in parent/ (adult) child relationships: Unveiled; The Mother Daughter Relationship, honoured with a multiplicity of awards, including a Genie from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television; the award-winning In My Parents’ Basement; and the new and final film in the trilogy, The August Yars of may and Gloria.
Ms. Judge also directed the Chris Award winning NFB film, And We Knew How To Dance: Women and WWI. Judge is creator/producer and director of the award-winning television series, Family Secrets and the co-creator and producer/director of Bravo Television series, Heart of a Poet.
Ms. Judge has a Master’s Degree in Cinema Studies from New York University and has taught at York University, Humber College and Sheridan College. She is currently developing a new documentary entitled, Edges of Love, which was awarded assistance by the Canwest-Hot Docs Development Fund.
filmography
The August Years of May and Gloria (53 min.) Director/Producer, 2010Mom’s Home (72 min.), Director/Producer, 2010
FlicKeR (72 min), Producer, 2008 (Makin’ Movies in co-production with the NFB)
*Special Jury Award, Canadian Feature Documentary: Hot Docs Film Festival (2008)
*Best Film in the International Films on Art Competition at the Era New Horizons Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
*Gemini Nomination for producing Best Performing Arts or Arts Documentary, Canada
Heart of a Poet I&II (TV series 26X30 min), Exec. Producer and Co-Creator/Producer/Director 2005-2007
Family Secrets I&II (TV series12X30 min) Creator/Producer/Director, 2002-2004
*Gold Award: Documentary Series, Worldfest Houston International Film Fest. (2004)
*Honorable Mention, Documentary Film, Columbus Film Festival: When Nobody’s Looking (2003-2005)
*Bronze Finalist: Documentary Series, Telly Awards (2003)
In My Parents’ Basement (60 min), Producer/Writer/Director, 2000-2002
*Silver Award: Documentary Category, Houston Film Festival (2002)
Unveiled:The Mother/Daughter Relationship (60 min) Co-Producer and Writer/Director, 1997
(Makin' Movies in co-production with the NFB)
*GENIE Award: Best Short Documentary, Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (1997)
*Gold Award: Social/Political Documentary, Chicago Film Festival, INTERCOM (1997)
*Honourable Mention: Social Issues, Columbus International Film & Video Festival (1997)
*Finalist Award: Documentary Worldfest Houston International Film Festival (1998)
* Hot Docs Award Nomination: Social/Political Documentary (1998)
And We Knew How To Dance: Women and WWI (60 min), Director/Researcher, 1993, Produced by the NFB
*Chris Award: Best Documentary Film: Social Issues, Columbus Int. Festival (1994)
Altered Ego (60 min), Writer/Director/Editor, 1991
Unnatural Causes: A Lillian Allen Poem (6 min), Director/Editor, 1990, Produced by the NFB, Studio D
A Venerable Occasion (30 min), Writer/Director/Editor, 1986
Family Business (30 min), Writer/Director/Editor, 1984
Short Bios for Key Creatives on The August Years of May and Gloria…
Producer/Director – Maureen Judge (see full biography)
Director of Photography – Harald Bachmann
Harald Bachman is a Gemini award-winning DP and has worked with Maureen Judge on several films, including FLicKeR, In My Parents’ Basement and Unveiled: The Mother Daughter Relationship. Over a twenty year career, Harald has shot hundreds of film and television projects including the award-winning documentary The Plague Monkeys and dramas, Curtis’ Charm and Save My Lost Nigga Soul .
Editor – Deborah Palloway
Deborah Palloway is a three-time Gemini winner and specializes in social documentary projects. She has worked extensively with director, Shelley Saywell on films including: A Child’s Century of War; Fire and Water; and Rape: A Crime of War. Deborah also has a passion for editing arts documentaries and recently edited Moving to Music, The two Muses of Guillaume Cote.
Composer – Aaron Davis
Aaron Davis is an eclectic multi award-winning composer, arranger and keyboardist, and orchestral arranger for jazz singer Holly Cole. In addition to working closely with Maureen Judge for over fifteen years, Aaron has worked with many of the country’s leading documentary and drama directors including Clement Virgo and Christian Bauer.
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(L-R) Gloria (daughter) and May singing (mother)
Director: Maureen Judge
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(L-R) May (mother) and Gloria (daughter) at lunch buffet
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(L-R) Gloria (daughter) and May at home (mother)
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(L-R) Charmaine (daughter) and Harrian (mother) hugging
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Harrian in back (mother) and Charmaine driving (daughter)
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(L-R) Liz (daughter) Pam (mother)
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(L-R) Liz (daughter) Pam in dressing room (mother)
Director: Maureen Judge
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Production Crew on location:
(L-R) Harald Bachmann, Cinematographer; Maureen Judge, Director; Jason Milligan, Sound Recordist
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Production Crew on location:
(L-R) Harald Bachmann, Cinematographer; Maureen Judge, Director; Jason Milligan, Sound Recordist
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Maureen Judge, Producer/Director
Photo: Ashley Lannigan
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