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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Revisiting Afro-Dominican Filmmaker Loira Limbal
Description: Afro-Dominican filmmaker Loira Limbal’s documentary Through the Night is an intimate look at one home-based 24-hour day-care center in New Rochelle, the couple who runs the center and the mothers and children who need it. The film, which was co-produced and presented by the PBS program POV, examines the impossible situations workers who are single parents--primarily women and most particularly women of color-- can find themselves in a 24 hour-a -day economy. Limbal asks: “What happens when they don’t have family to pick up the slack?” And Through the Night goes a long way in answering that question. In this 202...