In Bearing, the intense frustrations, heartache and joy of everyday motherhood are candidly told through intimate, observational vignettes which offer a frank and raw account of the filmmaker’s life as a new mum over the first five years of her daughter’s life.
Rosie Reed Hillman
Rosie Reed Hillman is a UK documentary filmmaker, photographer and visual anthropologist. Rosie’s short film, Cailleach (2014), is a portrait of an old woman living an independent, wild life in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The film has won 6 festival awards including Best Short at San Francisco International Film Festival and has screened at over 30 festivals internationally. She was a participant in the prestigious European Social Documentary Program 2017 where she developed her new project Bearing (2021), a portrait of everyday motherhood exploring themes of emotion and place. Rosie is a lecturer in filmmaking at Manchester Metropolitan University.