Documentary "Becoming a Mom": The Real Daily Life of 5 Moms

On May 8, a warm documentary "Becoming a Mother" celebrating Mother's Day was launched on Migu Video and Youku Video. The film is co-produced by Beijing Meizhongyi Women's and Children's Hospital and Jia Yi Director's Studio.

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The documentary "Becoming a Mother" lasted for nearly half a year. It followed and filmed 5 American and Chinese mothers and 8 children. It aimed the camera at the real and plain family life, hoping that contemporary women can become a unique experience of mothers, their existence, perception and experience. To be seen and understood, to evoke more resonance, support and strength. In the company of day and night, in the ordinary daily fireworks, the mother takes care of another little life with love, and the people in the family have a profound emotional connection, nourishing everyone.

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Cui Liuhui is the erhu chief of the Beijing Qu Opera Troupe, and Mr. Nan is the cellist of the China Peking Opera Orchestra. The son Mido is 9 years old this year, and the daughter Mixi is 7 years old. This romantic music home can’t be refined. Like the parents of thousands of children in China, they worry about their children’s learning, talents, and the path to higher education. As a second-born mother, she also has anxiety: “I am afraid of children I feel that the path I chose for him is not good enough. I always feel as if I have that kind of expectation and that kind of expectation, but I dare not tell him what my expectation for you is, it must be something, that kind of thing that can only be kept in my heart Head, that responsibility."

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Zhou Hongjuan is a director of obstetrics. Director Zhou conducts outpatient clinics every Wednesday and is in charge of mothers on the entire floor. He works night shifts once a week. In case of emergency, he needs to return to the hospital at any time. Director Zhou's eldest daughter, Yu'er, is 21 years old this year, and her youngest daughter, Tongtong, was born in 2018 and just turned 4 years old this year. The arrival of the youngest daughter brought unexpected changes to the middle-aged Zhou Hongjuan.
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Zhou Hongjuan has been operating for nearly 36 weeks. Work night shifts for a full 30 weeks. She still went out of the outpatient clinic at 37 weeks. She sighed: "I told my patients in the last month. I said that I will not go out of the outpatient clinic next week, and I will be hospitalized. He said it really! They don't even know. I am pregnant."

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Shi Ling is an architect. Nine years ago, seven days after the eldest Qingqing was born, she took a three-hour architectural professional drawing exam and obtained the first-level professional architect qualification. In the same year, she successfully entered a large-scale nationally renowned real estate company. In 2019, Shi Ling's second baby Haru was born. Half a year ago, she decided to quit her job and devote herself to accompany her two children and enjoy mother time. She believes: "The social value of mother is too low. Everyone thinks that she is only at home, but she is not simply doing housework and raising children. In fact, every link in the process has long-term significance. Mother is A group that needs support in particular, the support between mothers actually comes from our mutual support. If everyone has such a group, such a response and support from the society, you can have confidence that you can continue to move forward, the society is right You understand all your actions."

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Director Jia Yi said, "We use the camera to focus on the most ordinary family life: cooking, eating, picking up children to and from school, tutoring homework, accompanying piano practice, outings, going to the hospital... The "great" name of mother is in these It becomes concrete in simple repetitive work. It is the profound and real emotional connections that occur in these bland and even boring daily fireworks that nourish everyone's life. This is a song about family written with a camera. A poem of life for all mothers past, present and future."
Becoming a mother can be one of the bravest choices a woman can make in her life. In the company of day and night, the mother cares and nourishes another little life with love, and the child learns to believe and love. It can be said that the documentary "Becoming a Mother" is a video record, observation and reflection on contemporary women's coping with the dual challenges of parenting and self-realization.
"Becoming a Mother" has gathered outstanding domestic and foreign documentary creators and won many domestic and foreign awards. The works are broadcast on national platforms such as CCTV. Moreover, the main creative team of the documentary is mainly female, and it presents the story of a woman becoming a mother in a true and delicate manner.
Jia Yi believes: "Today's women are faced with multiple squeezes of self, motherhood and sociality, and many people still bravely choose to become mothers. We hope that their life experience of becoming mothers can be seen, understood, and received more support, and hope that they will become more mothers. Many mothers find a sense of connection and strength from the stories of other women becoming mothers, from their shared experiences and emotional experiences.”