Through The Night

Through the Night is a vérité documentary that explores the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a childcare provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York. Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival. A co-production of POV and ITVS in association with Black Public Media and Latino Public Broadcasting.

A quote from Hisham Mater and The Return stating : “I suppose that is what we want from our mothers, to maintain the world”.

This clip starts with a telephone pole and wires in front of a dusk sky and ends with two children helping Nunu by cleaning the floor.

Nu cooking as she explains “I have been doing this for 22 years…”

Nunu exclaims, “Lets not be rude because we are all friends!”.

This clip starts with a parent straightening her daughter's hair as she shares "I’ve been working seven days for almost 2 months” and ends with her at work expressing “If I didn't have Nunu, I don't know what I would do”.

Nunu is walking in the Thanksgiving Day Parade, saying that she “worries about [her] mothers all the time”.

This clip starts with children doing an art project and one shares, “When I started out in day care I didn’t like it”.

This clip starts with children happily playing piggyback and ends with a child closing the window to an outdoor playhouse with frustration.