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  • Mum's the Word (2020)
  • 60 min | Documentary
Mum's the Word (2020)
60 min | Documentary
Mum's The Word is an interactive documentary on the history and legacy of the adoption mandate in Canada as seen through the eyes of those who lived it and those who still feel it today. In the post-war period, approximately 350,000 women ...See moreMum's The Word is an interactive documentary on the history and legacy of the adoption mandate in Canada as seen through the eyes of those who lived it and those who still feel it today. In the post-war period, approximately 350,000 women throughout Canada were coerced into giving their "illegitimate children" up for adoption by churches, social workers, government agencies, and sometimes their own families. The impact and stigma that this mandate created is only beginning to be understood today. See less
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Director
Colin Scheyen (directed by)
Cinematographer
Josephine Anderson
Editors
Elvira Parent-Stevenson | Colin Scheyen
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Mar 10, 2020 (Canada)
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