The Doula (fundraiser) – a Personal Causes crowdfunding project in London by Luca Piercey

Hello world,My name’s Luca, and I’ve almost finished ‘The Doula’, but I need your help to pay our wonderful animator and composer, and get this film out to the wide world!Me and Jo…This is an important film about the state of giving birth in the modern era. As traditional ways of living change dramatically, we are losing touch with our own instincts; our first-born child is often the first baby we will have ever held, and giving birth has become a terrifying prospect. We have record numbers of high-intervention births worldwide and trauma related to them. This film is a portrait of Jo Piercey, a birth-doula of 10 years, and her friends who have a message to share about the beauty of what birth can be: whether at home, in a birth-centre, or in hospital.”We need to find that sense of profound awe again… about what a woman’s body can do.”Made up of a series of interviews I took with my mother over the last two years and archive footage, this is a deeply personal passion project that I’m so close to finishing. I want it to be the best it can be and accessible to everyone. To be the
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