The Good Mother

Sarah Klein brought a short about Rwanda called Slow by Slow to Mountainfilm in 2006 and was my producer when we made Hard As Nails (Mountainfilm 2007). She now returns with The Good Mother, which is about a competition that could be held only in America—a contest to name the Young Mother of the Year. The women, who come from all over the U.S. to compete for this unusual title, are holding onto a vision of traditional motherhood that rarely exists today. The film is narrated by Telluride local Susan Saint James and was edited by David Klagsbrun, who may well be the first editor to have feature films in Mountainfilm for three consecutive years running (Hard As Nails, and Don’t Look Down, 2008). —DH