PROMISE ME 

Charlie still has hope and is adamant in caring for her mother, Yolonda Thomas, as her health takes a turn for the worse. Loyal, she insists on sticking by her mother’s side until the very end. But when her school begins to notice Charlie’s absence, she is placed under a system of surveillance and Charlie will soon come to find that some decisions are outside of her control.

 

 

Promise Me is a new Neorealism film directed by Alison Duke and co-written with Lindsay Addawoo that is inspired by events while filming a documentary called The Woman I Have Become (2008) about eight African, Black, and Caribbean women living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto trying to build awareness about their struggles in the Canadian health care system. The children of one of the mothers were apprehended by Child Welfare because she was too sick to mother. A week later her mother passed away.  Alison Duke carried the story with her and wrote about it in an article called The Missing 17 Minutes for the Project Muse Journal. The story has haunted her psyche for years and motivated her to turn the experience into a short drama. Promise Me, is her first fictional work to date.

 

 

 

Alison Duke, Director & Co-Writer

Lindsey Addawoo, Co-Writer

Fonna Seidu, Producer

Lucas Joseph, Cinematographer

Eui Yong Zong, Editor

Ezinma, Composer

Ladan Mohamed Siad, Production Designer

Sophia Rickson, Costume Designer

 

 

 

https://www.promisemefilm.com/