Mimi and Dona
By: a film by Sophie Sartain ; a co-production of Sophie Sartain and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; produced, written and directed by Sophie Sartain
Contributors: Thornton, Naomi, on-screen participant; Thornton, Dona, on-screen participant; Independent Television Service; New Day Films; Passion River Films
Edition: Widescreen.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 65
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Adult children of aging parents; Parents of children with mental disabilities; Case studies; Mothers and daughters; Biography; People with mental disabilities
Description: What happens when love runs out of time? For a 92-year-old mother, Mimi, who has cared 64 years for her daughter, Dona, who has an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable. She will not outlive her daughter. This poignant, heartbreaking and, at times, humorous documentary traces this process through the story of a wonderfully quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo.
Notes: Documentary.

Program content: ©2015.

Featuring Naomi Thornton, Dona Thornton.

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH); closed-captioned.