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Mary Wigmore

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Biography

Mary Wigmore is a television and documentary film director. She has directed episodes of Single Drunk Female, American Horror Story, 9-1-1 and Scream Queens. Her feature documentary, Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives (co-directed with Sara Lamm), won the audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2012. Mary has made documentaries about the L.A. post-punk band That Dog, the ceramicists Magdalena and Michael Frimkess and Ashtanga Yoga as well as numerous music videos. Mary is a graduate of the Columbia University School of the Arts (MFA Directing).

Known For

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
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Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives captures a spirited group of women who taught themselves how to deliver babies on a 1970s hippie commune. Today as nearly one third of all US babies are born via C-section, they fight to protect their knowledge and to promote respectful, safe maternity practices all over the globe. From the backs of their technicolor school buses, these pioneers rescued American midwifery from extinction, changed the way a generation approached pregnancy, and filmed nearly everything they did. With unprecedented access to the midwives' archival video collection, as well as modern day footage of life at the alternative intentional community where they live, this documentary shows childbirth the way most people have never seen it--unadorned, unabashed, and awe-inspiring.

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives

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