Docs In Progress presents: Free Screening of Grandma Knows Best?
Date and Time
Aug 8, 2018 7:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Aug 8, 2018 7:00 pm
14th & V
Free Screening of Grandma Knows Best?
Tamara Dawit set out to make a short film about her two grandmothers (one in Canada and on in Ethiopia). They had been friends for over 35 years despite only have met in person a few times when she was a child. Tamara set out to reunite her grandmothers and spend some quality time catching up with them. Instead her grandmothers used the opportunity to conspire to convince Tamara to get married and have kids. Tears, begging, black magic and prayers followed. Grandma Knows Best? is the resulting documentary short which explores the differences in the lives and societal expectations of women from her grandmothers' generation to her own, and how society views single women, working women, divorce and motherhood.
Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with director Tamara Dawit who is in Washington DC as part of a Docs In Progress Filmmaker Residency.
