Episode 155: Why Sarah Surh made a film about miscarriage

One in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, but despite how rampant it is, you wouldn’t know it from how rarely it’s discussed between friends, or portrayed in film and television. Instead of sharing our miscarriage stories, we internalize our grief, trauma, and misplaced shame. Thus, our loss becomes a taboo subject, and the cycle of grief, trauma, and misplaced shame continues. Which makes Sarah Surh’s short film especially astonishing. Sarah is the producer, screenwriter, and star of Songbird, a short film that was directed by Heather Hawthorn Doyle and is lighting up the festival circuit. In it, Sarah shares her own miscarriage story, and the universe of emotions that went along with it. In this moving episode of the YVR Screen Scene Podcast, Sarah reflects on the experience of turning her broken heart into impactful art, and why this type of on-screen representation matters. Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA