The documentary film Through the Night by Bronx-based Afro-Latina DJ, filmmaker, and film executive Loira Limbal on 24-hour daycare centers, is having a special virtual theatrical release starting on Friday, December 11. The film will be available online to audiences across the U.S. through the Maysles Documentary Film Center and BAM in New York City, Facets Cinémathèque in Chicago, the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco, and the Laemmle cinemas in Los Angeles.
To make ends meet, people in the US are working longer hours across multiple jobs, resulting in an unexpected phenomenon: the flourishing of 24-hour daycare centers. Through the Night explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a child care provider whose lives intersect at one of these centers.
An intimate work of cinema verité, Through the Night is both a condemnation of our merciless economy and a love letter to single mothers and caregivers. Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the DOC NYC Film Festival and nominated for an IDA Documentary Award, the film “is both celebration and indictment. A sympathetic depiction of ‘women's work,’ in all its unsung dignity, it's also a quietly damning portrait of a merciless economy's effect on working-class mothers — particularly black women and Latinas, who often must work taking care of other people's children in order to feed their own” (The Hollywood Reporter).
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