So the cinema has decided to do just that — on Monday, January 17, at 7pm.
A Swanpool Cinema spokesperson said everyone, including parents with babies, was welcome to attend.
“However, for the screening to go ahead we need 49 patrons booked by January 3,” the spokesperson said.
“The film will educate, inspire and motivate young women, pregnant women, mothers, partners, grandparents, family, birth workers, midwives, doctors, policy makers and politicians to be the voice for change.
“The filmmakers speak with women, men, midwives, obstetricians, professors and lawyers exploring themes influencing our maternity system in Australia.
“(Those) include money, the ‘system’, human rights, the patriarchy and feminism, building a picture of the history that led us to where we are, and the current culture of how the system operated in the modern world.
“In this well-researched documentary three women embark on a mission to find out why an increasing number of women are emerging from giving birth physically and emotionally traumatised.
“The film opens with the story of Australian actress Zoe Naylor’s birth of her second child, Beau.
“With Jo Hunter as her midwife, and Jerusha Sutton as her doula/birth videographer, Zoe emerges feeling transformed and with a deep sense of healing — a vastly different experience to her first birth.
“This experience led to the three women having conversations about why one in three women in the developed world emerge from their births with trauma, why intervention and caesarean rates are rapidly increasing, and why we have a postnatal depression epidemic.
“We hear the birth stories of various Australian women and partners — giving us an insight into what women experience during the births of their babies.
“Global experts back up these experiences, questioning how and why our broken system fails women, their partners and the caregivers working within it.”
You can book tickets for this one-off screening at tickets.demand.film/event/11645
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