Birth Documentaries

Sarah sent me an email last night asking that I share information about this new birth documentary video contest!
Hi there–I am a mother of two in Richmond, VA (one midwife-assisted birth center birth, one home birth) and just stumbled upon your website today.
Anyway just based on what you’ve written about birth and your apparent feelings on the subject, I wanted to write you to see if you’d be willing to help us spread the word about a new contest intended to educated women about the choices they have during pregnancy and childbirth. Birth Matters Virginia (an organization that works to promote an evidence-based model of maternity care) is inviting mothers, fathers, filmmakers, film students, birth advocates, and others to create a 4-7 minute educational video about birth.
The first-place winner will receive a cash prize of $1000. Second place $500 and an “honorable mention” prize of $100 will also be awarded. The deadline for entering the contest is Mother’s Day, May 10, 2009. We actually got Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein (makers of the Business of Being Born) to agree to be guest judges of the contest along with Sarah Buckley, the OBGYN who wrote Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering.
Birth Matters Contest Web Site
You can also join our Facebook group
Email Sarah at Richmond@birthmattersva.org with any questions.
We want to get as many people to enter as we possibly can so that YouTube is inundated with videos about mother- and baby-friendly pregnancy and birth care so that more mainstream audiences are educated about their options. Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!! I’d be happy to send you a blurb that you can just cut and paste onto your blog and into email if it would be helpful…
Sarah
richmond@Birthmattersva.org
Here is the movie I plan to enter into the contest: