Saving Mum: Our Family Secret (Channel 4)

Описание: Saving Mum: Our Family Secret is a bold and deeply personal documentary from British South Asian filmmaker Maleena Pone, commissioned as part of Channel 4’s First Cut strand. The film follows Pone as she tries to repair her complicated relationship with her mother, Jasbir, and confront the legacy of silence, grief, and alcoholism that has shaped their family. Filmed across the UK and Costa Rica, it charts an unfiltered journey through love, resentment, and recovery. At the centre of the story is an Ayahuasca ceremony that becomes a catalyst for honesty and change. What begins as a desperate attempt to reconnect turns into a raw emotional reckoning—forcing both women to face painful truths and see each other beyond the labels of “mother” and “daughter.”
Told through years of personal footage, photos, and diaries, Saving Mum: Our Family Secret captures a side of British Punjabi family life rarely seen on screen. It’s about what happens when old wounds are finally opened and healing begins in public view.

Saving Mum: Our Family Secret airs on 10th December 2025, 11:10pm on Channel 4

Credits

Filmed, Produced & Directed by
Maleena Pone

Editor
Zeb Achonu BFE

Executive Producers
Fatima Salaria
Laurence Bowen
Chris Carey

Consulting Producer
Kimberly Knox

Director of Photography
Daniel Trapp

Assistant Editor
Deniz Kavalali

Costa Rica Unit
Camera Operator – Flavia Villalba
Sound Operator – Ana María Rojas Cachón
Production Assistant – Bernice Chan

Production Coordinator
Anthony Murombe-Chivero

Production Manager
Georgia Fairbank

Production Accountant
Ian Hoggart

Production Executive
Pete Coogan

Head of Production
Jacquie Glanville

Post-Production Facility
ONSIGHT

Head of Documentary Production (Onsight) – Julia Veidt
Senior Post Producer – Jade Townsend
Sound Supervisor – Andy Coles
Senior Colourist – Emily Russul Saib
Online Editor – Andrew Fisun
Senior Edit Assistant – Alfie Mitchell

With heartfelt thanks to
Jas and Laila Pone
Ronit, Cano, Bea, Ale, Elena, Jillaine and Mamoon
Indetail Studios
Film In Mind
Estas Tonne Music