Struggling filmmaker Shaina Feinberg embarks on a journey to learn how to be a career woman and a mom at the same time.
Struggling filmmaker Shaina Feinberg embarks on a journey to learn how to be a career woman and a mom at the same time. Along the way she meets Joan Darling, the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy in directing. In I ALMOST QUIT MY CAREER FOR MY KIDS. THEN I MET JOAN DARLING, Darling unexpectedly becomes Feinberg's life coach on work and motherhood. The film was commissioned by The New York Times.
Shaina Feinberg (she/they) is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer. She spent her twenties making a stoner, punk sketch show called The Spew. She has been on This American Life, was a resident at Space on Ryder Farms (2018) and Twenty Summers (2021), a Reel Families for Change grantee (2022) and a recipient of the Reboot Studios grant (2023). Her short doc, A Brief History of Hating My Face (2023), was commissioned by The New York Times. She has written for The New Yorker, Washington Post, Tablet and writes regularly for the New York Times. Her third book, Work, is due out in December 2024. Her films and books have been written about in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bust, Broadly, Logo, THEM, Indiewire and more. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and their two children.
