Motherboard
Synopsis
MOTHERBOARD is a complex, personal and unsentimental portrait of a mother-son relationship from birth to adulthood, exploring the ways in which Victoria and Jim navigate two generations of absent fathers and Victoria’s breast cancer diagnosis when Jim was just 13. The warm, playful and sometimes strained relationship between Victoria and Jim plays out against a backdrop of family life unfiltered.
MOTHERBOARD is the antidote to the judgmental and unrealistic expectations we have about motherhood, creating an honest, funny and relatable film for any mother who has wept tears of both joy and frustration.
Official selection CPH:DOX Film Festival 2024 - World Premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2024
Details
- Year
- 2024
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 87 min
- Format
- Smartphone 4K
- Director
-
Victoria Mapplebeck 1st Feature
- Producer
- Victoria Mapplebeck
- Executive Producer
- Debbie Manners
- Editor
- Victoria Mapplebeck, Oli Bauer; Assistant Editor: Anton Yavorsky
- Director of Photography
- Victoria Mapplebeck; Additional Camera: Mark Hammond, Jim Mapplebeck, Shira Finch
- Sound
- John Wakefield
- Composer
- Jamie Perera
- Creative Consultant
- Jim Mapplebeck
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
First Person Films
2nd Floor Waverley House7-12 Noel Street
London
W1F 8GQ
Sales Company
Autlook Filmsales
Spittelberggasse 3/141070 Vienna
Austria
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