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- 2022
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- 1 h 26 m
- 2022
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Summary Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.
- 2022
- TV-MA
- ABC News
- 1 h 26 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- ABC News
- 1 h 26 m
Aftershock
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Summary Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
87
100% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Though heartbreaking to watch, if not triggering, Aftershock remains essential viewing as it reveals another, underseen front in the unending battle for equality in the United States.
Aftershock is a powerful project inspired by loss, one that aims to move us closer to a world where all women, and especially Black women, are listened to and given the birthing experiences they deserve, so that we can one day begin to see an end to the abysmal statistics on maternal mortality in the United States.
The tried and true way to break viewers’ hearts is to make them care deeply. Aftershock wastes no time in doing just that.
It’s a clear-eyed, but by no means exhaustive, documentary that investigates this underreported crisis without losing sight of the people processing the depths of their loss.
In exposing the horrifying reality of giving birth while Black—and providing tangible alternatives for increasingly dangerous hospital births—Aftershock might very well save lives. Most importantly, the film immortalizes two mothers whose deaths never should have occurred, giving space for the innumerable victims of this crisis to similarly take action and memorialize those they’ve lost to senseless medical racism.
Eiselt and Lee cover how these families — and in particular the fathers left behind by their partners’ passing — are still coping with unexpected loss. The film also provides some history lessons on how Black women have been either exploited or ignored by the medical establishment.
Aftershock is a moving ode to Black families in a society where too many forces work to tear them apart.
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Production Company
Impact Partners,
Madstone Company,
Malka Films
Release Date Jul 19, 2022
Duration 1 h 26 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination