No Woman, No Cry
World Premiere

No Woman, No Cry

Discovery
| USA | 60 MINUTES | English, Swahili, Bangla, Spanish
Female Director(s), Documentary

For more than a half million women each year, pregnancy is a death sentence. Every minute another mother dies from a complication in pregnancy or childbirth. Shockingly, nearly all maternal deaths and disabilities could be prevented. No Woman, No Cry is a gripping documentary that tells the powerful personal stories of pregnant women and their caregivers in four countries as they try to avoid becoming one of these troubling statistics.

Drawn into the issue by her own experiences as a mother, Christy Turlington Burns sets out to see firsthand what can be done to prevent so many women from dying. Turlington Burns has created a moving and visually rich documentary that personalizes the quiet crisis of maternal mortality, putting audiences in the shoes of a young Maasai mother who has gone into labor and must walk five miles to the nearest clinic; a pregnant woman in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh who is too ashamed to seek care; and a pregnant obstetrician helping women who have had no choice but to undergo dangerous illegal abortions in Guatemala. Turlington Burns exposes how even the United States, a country that spends more per capita on health care than any other nation, still has a higher maternal mortality ratio than all of Western Europe as well as Bosnia, Kuwait, Slovenia, and Hungary. Turlington Burns has made an eye-opening activist film that will touch mothers and non-mothers alike.


Cast & Credits
Directed by
Christy Turlington Burns and Christy Turlington Burns
Christy Turlington Burns has spent more than 25 years at the forefront of the fashion industry and has established a diverse career as a model, writer, entrepreneur, and spokesperson. She is the Advocate for Maternal Health for the humanitarian organization CARE and an Ambassador for (RED).
Director
Christy Turlington Burns
Sound Recordists
Wellington Bowler and Judy Karp
Editor
Sari Gilman
Co-Producer
Clancy McCarty
Director of Photography
Kirsten Johnson
Producer
Dallas Brennan Rexer

Contacts
Director's Agent
Lisa Jacobson
UTA
Los Angeles, CA 10014
Phone: 310 246 6024
jacobson_l@unitedtalent.com
Press Contact
Nicolas Newbold
Turly Pictures
New York, NY 10014
nicolas@turlyinc.com
Submitter
Dallas Rexer
Turly Pictures, LLC
New York, NY 10013
Phone: 212 633 8088
dallas.brennanrexer@gmail.com
Technical Contact
Gladys Murphy
Turly Pictures
New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212 633 8088
gladmurphy@hotmail.com
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