Mama Bears

“The lens never veers toward hate or conflict, instead keying in on connection and affirmation.”
- Jasmine Lane, Austin Chronicle

“The three families in Mama Bears provide a kaleidoscopic lens for understanding the tensions between faith, gender and sexuality”
- Lovie Gyarkye, Hollywood Reporter

“It’s a powerful film, full of humanity and heart, but sadly many of the people who need to see it most won’t. Those who do are in for a powerful and beautiful experience.”
- Rachel Shatto, The Advocate

SYNOPSIS: Spread across the country but connected through private Facebook groups, they call themselves “mama bears” because while their love is warm and fuzzy, they fight ferociously to make the world kinder and safer for all LGBTQ+ people. Although some may have grown up as fundamentalist, evangelical Christians, mama bears are willing to risk losing friends, family, and faith communities to keep their offspring safe—even if it challenges their belief systems and rips their worlds apart.

MAMA BEARS is an intimate, thought-provoking exploration of the journeys taken by Sara Cunningham and Kimberly Shappley, two “mama bears” —whose profound love for their LGBTQ children has turned them into fierce advocates for the entire queer community — and Tammi Terrell Morris, a young African American lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance perfectly exemplifies why the mama bears are so vitally important.

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