"Maverick Mother" Official Trailer (9mins)

http://www.maverickmother.net
Tired of waiting for the perfect partner, and alarmed by the deafening tic-toc of her biological clock, a 39 year-old filmmaker decides to become a solo mother by choice. She joins a waiting list for a donor insemination program, but while waiting has an affair with a Swiss man and finds herself pregnant. In MAVERICK MOTHER Janet documents her experiences through personal and at times irreverent video diaries and dramatised studio reconstructions. The film interrogates the nature of family in contemporary western society and contemplates the past, present and future concepts of solo motherhood, and the attitudes of women who, rather than being left on the shelf by men because they are too smart, too funny, too ugly, too talented or too independent, embrace their own sexuality and fertility to immerse themselves in lifes greatest love and greatest challenge.

Blending serious moments and comical situations of her life
with surrealistic photo-montage episodes, Janet Merewether frequently expands the borders of documentary.
Taiwan International Documentary Festival

WINNER - Jury Special Mention TIDF 2008
WINNER Audience Award - TIDF 2008
WINNER - ATOM Award for Best Australian Documentary (General and Human Interest Categories) 2008

Loved your film! I was so delighted to see your take on the single mother of today. You're a very creative film-maker.
Jane Mattes writer & founder of SMC Single Mothers by Choice, New York

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• choosing single motherhood
• single mothers by choice
• solo motherhood
• documentary
• Australian film
• going it alone

[TreyNitrotoluene]

Sounds like she WANTS to raise a metrosexual. :/

I think a woman can raise a real man if she tries. Gods know I wouldn't want to raise a looser like the guys Ive unfortunately dated, LOL