Urbanworld Film Festival 2009

MRS. GOUNDO’S DAUGHTER is the story of a West African mother’s fight for asylum in the U.S. to protect her two-year old daughter from female genital cutting. Shot in Philadelphia and Mali, the film explores the African tradition of female genital cutting, which dates back thousands of years, as well as the intricacies and frustrations of the asylum process.

BIO:
BARBARA ATTIE and JANET GOLDWATER have worked collaboratively since 1990, making widely acclaimed documentaries that have been broadcast nationally and internationally. In 2005 they were awarded the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Their collaboration ROSITA (2005), was broadcast in Latin America on HBO/Cinemax as well as in Europe and Asia. ROSITA was selected to screen at INPUT 2007 and has been shown at film festivals worldwide, including the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and Silverdocs. Attie and Goldwater's 2002 ITVS production, MAGGIE GROWLS was selected to be the premiere program on PBS's Independent Lens documentary series. Other Attie and Goldwater documentaries broadcast nationally on PBS include DARING TO RESIST: THREE WOMEN FACE THE HOLOCAUST (2000) and LANDOWSKA: UNCOMMON VISIONARY (1999). Attie earned an MFA in Film from Temple University, and Goldwater earned an MFA in Photography and Design from Boston University.