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Desperately Seeking Grandma Alma


DESPERATELY SEEKING GRANDMA ALMA is a sweet story of loss and freedom three women, sing, laugh, cry, dance and crack jokes in a quest to find Grandma Alma. Along the way there are lots of distaffs, bible scripture, cake, and West Indian recipes.


Check out the IMDb for credits.

Before filmmaking director DM was a performance poet a highlight of that time was supporting Pulitzer prize winner Toni Morrison on her tour entitled Jazz.  DM is a documentary geek and mixes reality with fantasy to explore cultural and creative processes with film.


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SEEKING

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STORIES

WHAT  VIEWERS SAY

BRAVO! AWESOME!


"I cried, laughed, reminisced then did so all over again and again.

Love you sis for you being you not forgetting my gorgeous niece."



- Son

THANK YOU!


"I must confess I only watched half but it was really lovely to see footage of people from the past, and thoughts from aunty and commentary from you and

g-ddaughter"



- G-dmother

SO BEAUTIFUL


“Morning Aunty I watched the whole thing last night!  So happy you captured all these lovely memories.  Watching cuzzie do her dance moves was hilarious.”


- Great grand-daughter

I LOVED THIS!!!!!




“Well done to you and your mum!  Oh how I miss your grandparents!”





- Sister-in-law

WELL DONE LADY 100%



"Very well put together minus all the additives that we are accustomed to seeing in film.  Full of information."




- Nephew

I LOVED YOUR FILM




“I loved your short film, one day I would love to try and make one myself. It had the character of a short independent film.”


- Nephew

Watch and learn popular old time food recipes like 'cow heel' soup.

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“Not your typical cooking show... Just like being in a family members kitchen and being shown the secrets to a family recipe.”


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BRAVO! AWESOME!


I cried, laughed, reminisced then did so all over again and again. Love you sis for you being you not forgetting my gorgeous niece."



Son, UK

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