When a woman dies from complications of childbirth, she leaves behind loved ones struggling to deal with the loss. Aftershock, a documentary from Disney’s Onyx Collective, brings attention to the U.S.
maternal mortality crisis by focusing on the death of two women and the family members they left behind. “Often people hear about an issue like maternal mortality and morbidity, and they just see numbers,” filmmaker Tonya Lewis Lee said during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event. RELATED: The Contenders Documentary – Deadline’s Full Coverage Lewis Lee co-directed and co-produced the film with Paula Eiselt.
After deciding to make the documentary together, they looked for a way to humanize the story, with the aim to change the way we look at the issue. “We both felt that it was important to tell this story through people’s lived experiences,” Lewis Lee said.
Aftershock centers on Shamony Gibson, 30, and Amber Rose Isaac, 26, two young women who died from complications of childbirth.
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