Patricia Erens

Female characters in martial arts films from Hong Kong: the women who played them and the directors who wrote the scenarios and directed the films.

Mamadrama combines film clips, cultural commentary, interviews with Hollywood and Israeli filmmakers and footage from Schwarz's earlier films in an exploration of the image of the Jewish mother in film beginning with early silent and Yiddish films up through contemporary movies.

Patricia Erens interviews patrons of the local drugstore in the tiny village of Three Oaks, Michigan, who all get up early Sunday morning to pay five dollars for one of the limited number of copies of The New York Times Sunday newspaper.