“Incredibly emotional.”
Love & Stuff
by Judith Helfand • 2020 • 90’ • USA
Credits
Director:
Judith Helfand
Producers:
Judith Helfand
Hilla Medalia
Julie Parker Benello
LOVE & STUFF is a multi-generational love story. It starts with a good death, takes off with an unexpected birth and commits to the ride of a lifetime. Told in the first person, in deep consultation with the past, filmmaker Judith Helfand — who becomes a “new old” mother overnight — explores the transformative power of parenting, our complex and very emotional attachment to “stuff” and what it is we really need to leave our children.
Festivals
HotDocs 2020
DOC NYC 2020
Toronto Jewish Film Festival 2020
UK Jewish Film Festival 2020
Filmmaker’s Biography
Judith Helfand has had three films premiere at Sundance, with broadcasts on PBS (POV), HBO, and The Sundance Channel. In addition to THE UPRISING OF ’34 (co-directed with George Stoney), her films include the Sundance award-winning and two-time Emmy nominated film BLUE VINYL (co-directed with Daniel B. Gold) and its Peabody Award-winning nominated prequel A HEALTHY BABY GIRL, as well as EVERYTHING’S COOL, also co-directed with Gold. Helfand co-founded Working Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures. In her Chicken & Egg Pictures role, she was Producer on the Oscar-nominated, Dupont-winning short, THE BARBER OF BIRMINGHAM, and Executive Producer for the award-winning films BROOKLYN CASTLE, SEMPER FI: ALWAYS FAITHFUL, PRIVATE VIOLENCE, and HOT GIRLS WANTED. Along with LOVE & STUFF, Helfand is in post-production on COOKED, a film about the politics of disaster, extreme weather, and survival by zip code.
Executive Producers:
Regina K. Scully, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Dan Cogan, Nancy Blachman,
Sarah Cavanaugh, Megan Gelstein, Susan Margolin