Promise and Unrest

An intimate portrayal of a migrant woman performing global care work and long-distance motherhood in her role as sole provider for an extended family back in the Philippines.
Genre : Documentary
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Promise and Unrest

Through struggle and sacrifice migrant women often stand as sole breadwinners in the transnational family. Separated from her daughter Gracelle at 7 months, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines for work in Malaysia before arriving in Ireland in 2000. Filmed over a five-year period, PROMISE AND UNREST is an intimate portrayal of a migrant woman working as a caregiver and long-distance mother, while assuming the responsibility of providing for her extended family in the Philippines.

PROMISE AND UNREST, winner of the Best Film Award at the ETNOFILm3 Festival in Croatia, captures the everyday intricacies of Noemi and Gracelle’s relationship, their reunion in Ireland through the `right to family reunification‘, and the beginnings of a domestic life together in the same country for the first time. Narrated by Noemi and Gracelle in Waray and English with English subtitles.

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Directors : Alan Grossman , Áine O’Brien
Markets : Documentary
Year Released : 2010
Running Time : 79
Color : Color
Country : Ireland
Original Language : English/Waray/Tagalog

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Best Film Award, ETNOFILm3, Croatia, 2011

Screenings

World Premiere, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Official Selection, 2010
DMZ Korean Documentary International Film Festival, 2010
Tel Aviv Cinemateque, 2010
San Diego Asian Film Festival, 2010
Days of Ethnographic Film Festival, Slovenia, 2011
Art-Kino Croatia, 2011
Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Russian Research Institute of the Cultural and National Heritage, 2011
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, 2011
Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC 2011
European Association of Social Anthropology, Ireland, 2010
Cambridge Film Festival, 2010
International Film Festival ETNOFILM ČADCA, Slovakia, 2010
Waterford Film Festival, Ireland, 2010
Women Make Waves Migration Film Festival, Taiwan, 2011
International Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) Film Festival, Scotland, 2011
Taiwan Ethnographic Film Festival, 2011
Jean Rouch International Film Festival, 2011
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Through struggle and sacrifice migrant women often stand as sole breadwinners in the transnational family. Separated from her daughter Gracelle at 7 months, Noemi Barredo left the Philippines for work in Malaysia before arriving in Ireland in 2000. Filmed over a five-year period, PROMISE AND UNREST is an intimate portrayal of a migrant woman working as a caregiver and long-distance mother, while assuming the responsibility of providing for her extended family in the Philippines.

PROMISE AND UNREST, winner of the Best Film Award at the ETNOFILm3 Festival in Croatia, captures the everyday intricacies of Noemi and Gracelle’s relationship, their reunion in Ireland through the `right to family reunification‘, and the beginnings of a domestic life together in the same country for the first time. Narrated by Noemi and Gracelle in Waray and English with English subtitles.

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