Mrs. Goundo's daughter / produced and directed by Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater ; a co-production of Attie & Goldwater Productions, Inc. and the Independent Television Service (ITVS).

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Attie, Barbara, producer, director.

Goldwater, Janet, producer, director.

Tonooka, Sumi, composer.

Attie & Goldwater Productions, producer.

Independent Television Service, producer.

Women Make Movies (Firm), distributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

French

Soninke

Subjects (All):

Goundo family.

Asylum, Right of--United States.

Asylum, Right of.

Women's rights.

Female genital mutilation.

United States.

Female genital mutilation--Mali.

Female genital mutilation--United States.

Emigration and immigration law.

Women's rights--Mali.

Women's rights--United States.

Mali.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 2009.

Language Note:

In English, French and Soninké, with English subtitles.

System Details:

DVD-R; this disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

"Threatened with deportation, Mrs. Goundo must convince an immigration judge that her two-year-old daughter is in danger: if returned to her family's native country of Mali, she will be forced to undergo female genital mutilation. Reveals how women are profoundly affected by immigration law and political asylum struggles and travels between an FGM ceremony in a Malian village to the expatriate community of Philadelphia, where Mrs. Goundo battles the American legal system for her child's future"--Container.

Credits:

Camera, Peter Brownscombe ; editors, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, Sharon Mullally ; original score, Sumi Tonooka.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

OCLC:

435740336