Endomononi (With Mother) tells the story of two traditional midwives working to provide maternity care in a predominately Maasai community in rural Tanzania. Maasai girls and women remain some of the most marginalized populations in Sub-Saharan Africa with little to no access to education or health services and experience extreme health and economic disparities.

Director & Producer: Clancy McCarty
Director of Photography & Co-Producer: Nicole Mackinlay Hahn
Editor: Danya Abt

Music: John Fredericks

Director & Producer: Clancy McCarty

Giving Birth in America: New Mexico tells the story of two midwives, Nicolle Gonzales (Changing Women Initiative) and Nandi A. Hill, working to provide compassionate, high-quality maternity care in the state with the highest percentage of midwifery-led births and where Indian Health Services (IHS), the agency responsible for providing health care to Native Americans, struggles to meet the needs of its community. The film premiered on CNN in November 2019.

Giving Birth in America: California follows the story of pregnancy and immigration in California – a state where pregnant women are eligible for Medicaid regardless of immigration status. The film features the work of Dr. Cristina Gamboa and Salud Para la Gente. The film premiered at SFFILM’s Doc Stories was distributed on CNN in 2018.

Giving Birth in America: Louisiana follows two pregnant women in the aftermath of the 2016 Baton Rouge floods. In addition to being displaced from the storms, Brianna and Teneshia share their personal challenges and decisions surrounding their pregnancies and birth following the floods. Dr. St. Amant, a local Maternal & Fetal Medicine Specialist, and Dr. Rebekah Gee, Secretary of the Louisiana Dept. of Health, provide insight over the many risks women face today in the United States when it comes to receiving adequate health care, and also highlight the importance of compassionate care at a time when more women are at risk of facing complications in pregnancy and childbirth, particularly women of color. The film premiered on CNN and the SCAD Film Festival in 2017.

Con Madre highlights the importance of midwifery care in one of the most dangerous countries in Central America to give birth, Guatemala. The film follows the first class of university-level midwives, parteras, as they return to their rural, Indigenous communities where they train under the mentorship of traditional midwives, comadronas. The film debuted on National Geographic’s Short Film Showcase and was voted Vimeo’s Staff Pick in 2017.

Directed and Produced by Clancy McCarty

Director of Photography: Janet Jarman

Editor: Filip Lein

Giving Birth in America: New York tells the story of a young doula as she supports a woman alone in her birth, helping her navigate the complexities of the urban medical system. The film also features Chanel L. Porchia-Albert, founder of Ancient Song Doula Services. The film premiered on CNN in 2015.

Giving Birth in America: Florida tells the story of Certified Professional Midwife, Jennie Joseph, as she provides high-quality, personalized prenatal care to women, regardless of their insurance status or birth plans. Naomi is 6 ½ months pregnant and struggling to find health insurance and compassionate prenatal care. Rachel is hoping for a VBAC for her third delivery, but experiences complications with a missed diagnosis and high interventions. The film premiered on CNN in 2015.

Giving Birth in America: Montana tells the story of one woman as she travels long distances to access the birth and care she needs. The film premiered on CNN in 2015.

Director & Producer: Clancy McCarty

Director of Photographer: Jessica Dimmock

Editor: Josh Banville

In 2015, world-renowned ultramarathon champion Scott Jurek and his wife, ultramarathoner Jenny Jurek, joined Team Every Mother Counts in Tanzania to run the Kilimanjaro half and full marathon - highlighting distance as one of the biggest barriers to critical care during pregnancy and childbirth.

Producer: Clancy McCarty

Director of Photography: Nicole Mackinlay Hahn

Editor: Danya Abt

Seda, a 25-year-old nurse-midwife, is the only skilled birth attendant on staff in the maternity ward at Chakhaza Health Center in Dowa, Malawi. Only 1% of the rural population in Malawi is linked to the national electricity grid, and Seda, like many health care workers, struggles without power to make sure pregnant women can deliver safely, oftentimes in the dark.

Directed and Produced by Clancy McCarty

Cinematography by Venetia Dearden

Written and Edited by Jessica Reynolds

4,700 women die in Uganda each year due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. Often times, distance is the biggest barrier for women to access timely and skilled care during pregnancy and labor. In three districts of Uganda, The film highlights Baylor Children's Foundation's provision of vouchers to ensure that women have affordable access to skilled care, enabling them to reach a clinic to deliver safely.

Directed and Produced by Clancy McCarty

Cinematography by Venetia Dearden

Written and Edited by Jessica Reynolds

EVERY MILE, EVERY MOTHER is a short film that explores long-distance running as a metaphor for birth. The film follows 12 runners as they run Hood to Coast, a 200-mile relay race in Oregon, also to highlight the barrier distance creates for women to access critical maternity care. The film illustrates the support and teamwork required to ensure a safe and empowering birth experience for mothers, similar to the support and teamwork required for long-distance running.

Director: Christy Turlington Burns

Producer: Clancy McCarty

Editor: Andy Grieve

In Part 4 of "The Making of a Midwife", Midwives for Haiti's 2013 class graduates. Juslène and 22 other students will go on to become midwives. Juslène explains she is eager to find work which is challenging in Haiti. She is passionate about putting her training to use. Nadene, the founder of Midwives for Haiti, believes that Juslène is a perfect candidate for a birth center, which Midwives for Haiti hopes to open this year. EMC is continuing to support the training of the 2014 class of midwives.

Co-Director & Producer: Clancy McCarty
Co-Director & Editor: Gladys Mae Murphy
Cinematographer: Bellony Jean Pierre

IIn Part 3 of "The Making of a Midwife", we meet Philomene, a mobile clinic midwife, who spends 4 days a week traveling to remote locations in the Central Plateau to provide prenatal care to women who have limited access. At least two students, including Juslene, who is four months into her midwifery training, attend each clinic as part of Midwives for Haiti's curriculum. With only one jeep, the midwives sometimes travel anywhere from 30 minutes to 2.5 hours on roads that after often times unpaved, reaching 600+ women a month.

Co-Director & Producer: Clancy McCarty
Co-Director & Editor: Gladys Mae Murphy
Cinematographer: Bellony Jean Pierre

In Part 2 of "The Making of a Midwife", we meet Gennette, a midwife, instructor, and graduate of Midwives for Haiti, who also leads MFH's Matron Outreach Program. Matrons attend 70% of births in Haiti, and in a country where preeclampsia and eclampsia are a leading cause of death for pregnant women, Midwives for Haiti works to educate women and their caregivers so women can have access to safe and healthy deliveries.

Co-Director & Producer: Clancy McCarty
Co-Director & Editor: Gladys Mae Murphy

Cinematographer: Bellony Jean Pierre

Juslene is a young Haitian woman beginning her year-long midwifery training with Midwives for Haiti in a country with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the western hemisphere.

Co-Director & Producer: Clancy McCarty
Co-Director & Editor: Gladys Mae Murphy
Cinematographer: Bellony Jean Pierre

In her gripping directorial debut, Christy Turlington Burns shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world, including a remote Maasai tribe in Tanzania, a slum of Bangladesh, a post-abortion care ward in Guatemala, and a prenatal clinic in the United States.

Director Christy Turlington Burns
Producer: Dallas Brennan Rexer
Co-producer: Clancy McCarty
Director of Photography: Kirsten Johnson