{"id":836984,"date":"2025-03-26T17:12:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/propublica-documentary-before-a-breath-streaming-march-20\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:12:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:12:35","slug":"propublica-documentary-before-a-breath-streaming-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/propublica-documentary-before-a-breath-streaming-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"ProPublica Documentary \u201cBefore A Breath\u201d Streaming March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure data-pp-id=\"1\" data-pp-blocktype=\"video\">\n<h3>Trailer for \u201cBefore a Breath\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>\n            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J-lrlMTptRg?si=KIFBKOcV9KZSyJ-d\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n        <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"2.0\">ProPublica\u2019s feature documentary \u201cBefore A Breath,\u201d directed by Nadia Sussman, will have its <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J-lrlMTptRg\">YouTube premiere<\/a> on Thursday, March 20, at 8 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"3.0\">\u201cBefore a Breath\u201d is a tender, infuriating and ultimately hopeful story of three mothers who have lost children to stillbirth and are now striving to make pregnancy safer. The film explores an experience shared by thousands of families in the U.S., where more than 20,000 stillbirths occur each year. At least a quarter of those losses are probably preventable.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"4.0\">After the stillbirth of her daughter, Debbie Haine Vijayvergiya goes to Washington. She finds herself battling entrenched political inertia as she fights to pass the SHINE for Autumn Act, legislation named for her stillborn child. Kanika Harris, a maternal health advocate, takes change into her own hands, telling the story of Kodjo and Zindzi, the twins she lost, as she trains a new generation of Black birth workers. The stakes for making birth safer crystalize as we meet Stephanie Lee, a nurse administrator in Manhattan who, while seeking answers about her daughter Elodie\u2019s stillbirth, takes the ultimate leap of faith. We follow her as she prepares to give birth again, under the care of the Rainbow Clinic at Mount Sinai, which offers specialized care for parents who have experienced these losses.<\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"5.0\">Inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/series\/stillbirths\">Duaa Eldeib\u2019s groundbreaking reporting<\/a>, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, this film shines a light on the aftermath of stillbirth, an experience often shrouded in silence.<\/p>\n<div data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"6.0\">\n<p>\u201cBefore a Breath\u201d will also be distributed by The WNET Group. The film is a production of ProPublica. It is executive-produced by Almudena Toral and produced by Sussman, Eldeib, Lisa Riordan Seville and Liz Moughon, who is also the director of photography. It was edited by Margaret Cheatham Williams, with additional editing by Mahdokht Mahmoudabadi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where and how to watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"8.0\"><strong>Join us for a virtual discussion about the film<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-pp-blocktype=\"copy\" data-pp-id=\"9.0\">Join us on Wednesday, April 2, at 4 p.m. Eastern for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/events\/before-a-breath-propublicas-new-documentary-about-the-u-s-stillbirth-crisis\">panel discussion with the filmmakers<\/a> as they welcome the film\u2019s main participants to share their powerful insights and experiences surrounding the stillbirth crisis. Reporter Duaa Eldeib and director Nadia Sussman will be joined by Kanika Harris, Stephanie Lee, Debbie Haine Vijayvergiya and Dr. Joanne Stone, founder of the Rainbow Clinic at Mount Sinai.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/atpropublica\/propublica-documentary-before-a-breath-streaming-march-20\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailer for \u201cBefore a Breath\u201d ProPublica\u2019s feature documentary \u201cBefore A Breath,\u201d directed by Nadia Sussman, will have its YouTube premiere on Thursday, March 20, at 8 p.m. Eastern. \u201cBefore a Breath\u201d is a tender, infuriating and ultimately hopeful story of three mothers who have lost children to stillbirth and are now striving to make pregnancy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704,36816,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-836984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-documentary","8":"category-propublica","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}