BIRTH IS A DREAM - Maternity in AfricaA multi-media video documenting an untold matter
2024 Rivers International Film Festival: NOMINEE
2017 Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival: Official selection
2014 SDN Narrative Documentary Still & in Motion 2014: first place
2014 American Online Film Awards. Spring Showcase Official Selection
2013 SIMA (Social Impact Media Awards). Nominee for BEST DOCUMENTARY in Documentary Short Category
2013 Humanitarian Reporting Competition (Global Citizen & DAWNS). Top12 finalist
BIRTH IS A DREAM has been shot across DRC, Malawi and Uganda, in 2011 and 2012.
Every year in Sub-Saharan Africa 200.000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth. A mother's death is a human tragedy, affecting families and communities. Her death endangers the lives of a surviving newborn and any other young children; a mother's death makes it harder for the family to obtain life's necessities and escape the crush of poverty. A great many of these deaths are preventable, when women have access to quality prevention, diagnostic, and treatment services.
"Birth is a dream - Maternity in Africa" aims to document and raise awareness about the maternity crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.
photography & video
PAOLO PATRUNO
editing & postproduction
PAOLO PATRUNO
Forewarning: this video contains some graphic images that some viewers may find disturbing
