Conversations with Teen Mums

“I felt like I had failed at everything in life. Like I had failed at school, I had failed with boyfriends, I felt like I had failed myself and I thought for the first time this is not something I can fail at. I’m going to be the best fucking parent I can be. And I’m going to prove to everybody that I can be a wonderful teenage mum...”

— Annika

CONVERSATIONS WITH TEEN MUMS is a web-based interactive documentary about millennial and generation Z young mums. It depicts the lives of girls catapulted straight into motherhood while still young themselves.

Funded by via NZ On Air’s Digital Media Fund with additional support from the NZ Film Commission, Conversations was independently made in Auckland over a period of four years by a female creative team.

Featuring a combination of photographic portraits, personal quotes, written interviews and films, the Conversations website offers audiences a unique window into the minds of NZ young mums who are coming-of-age as their children grow.

The website captures its subjects’ experiences in their own words, providing a voice to a group of NZ women whose stories often go unheard.

Directed by Juliette Veber.

Producer: Vicky Pope

Editor: Prisca Bouchet

Web Design: Cactus Lab

Digital Design Director: Matt Buchanan

Music Composers: Joost Langeveld and Chris van de Geer

contacts

NZ.

POP Film

vickypope@me.com