Care Takes
Kiva ReardonMotherhood and movies, and how they often connect.
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001: CARE TAKES COLLECTION
Pregnancy is a medical condition that is disproportionally informed by popular culture, societal pressures, and political [ill] will. I had conceptually understood this as someone who had always hoped to grow a fetus, but when I got pregnan...
Professional ambition and family aspirations
Despite having lived on the festival circuit for over half a decade, I had never been to Sundance until the second to last Park City edition rolled around in 2025. For many reasons, it felt like the stakes were high: first and foremost, the...
A comprehensive (and still expanding) list of every film festival in the world that offers childcare
A still from Albert Lamorisse’s Le ballon rouge. The namesake of the Red Ballon Alliance, an advocate and provider of childcare at film festivals.
It costs a lot (definitely financially and sometimes emotionally) to attend a film festival....
Cinecamp watches your kid so you can watch movies
What would film festivals look like if we removed childcare barriers? At the 2026 edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies, the newly launched Cinecamp is answering that question.
One of my clearest memories from a film festival is th...
Care Takes
This is about how, simply, it just is. It gets done. Not by some magical essence that a person holds–but through some combination of practicality in the face of reality.
Since having my baby, I have experienced a ceaseless desire to talk a...
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mothering and movies
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