TODAY THE HAWK TAKES ONE CHICK

JANE GILLOOLY
2007 (72 min) DVCAM

In Swaziland, in southern Africa, the circle of life has been turned on its head. Grandmothers—or Gogos—are forced to watch their adult children die of AIDS, and to raise their many grandchildren on their own. Today the Hawk Takes One Chick follows three Gogos living in a society at the threshold of collapse. The women organize their communities to create nurturing lives for these orphans, at an age when they expected their adult children to be taking care of them. Gillooly’s direction shines light on the individual suffering and perseverance of those affected by AIDS, inviting the audience to experience a world where HIV affects everyone.

About JANE GILLOOLY

Jane Gillooly is a non-fiction and narrative film/video maker. Projects include Today The Hawk Takes One Chick (2007-08) an observational film shot in a rural Swaziland. Rockefeller-nominated experimental feature film script, The Not Dead Yet Club (2006). Dragonflies, The Baby Cries (2000) which premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and official selection of; San Francisco International Film Festival, Contemporary Film Festival of Mexico City, PBS and SUNDANCE Channels. She was also co-producer of Theme: Murder (1998), selected to screen at Full Frame Documentary Festival, and INPUT. Her film Leona's Sister Gerri (1995) was featured at the Museum of Modern Art New Directors, New Films, Robert Flaherty Seminar, PBS, and the SUNDANCE Channel and recently included in the Best of P.O.V. released 2007. A MacDowell Fellow, Gillooly is a professor of film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.  

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