Private Project

The Moms

Log Line: 5 Moms. 7 minutes. One Prius. And 432 opinions they will die for. Welcome to Moms night out.

Brief Synopsis:

This film is about parents, and the period of time in which we shouldn’t be allowed to communicate with others.

Parents have opinions. Opinions that they’re willing to lose friends over. Opinions they’re willing to hold life-long grudges with family members about. Opinions that they’re willing to shout at strangers in the baby aisle at Target.

This film is for the parents out there who know they are right. Because being right is really what this is all about.

  • Katie Goodman
    Director
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  • Soren Kisiel
    Writer
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  • Katie Goodman
    Producer
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  • Soren Kisiel
    Producer
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  • Tana Sirois
    Key Cast
    "Trina"
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  • Aubrey Lace Taylor
    Key Cast
    "Ella"
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  • Katie Goodman
    Key Cast
    "Liz"
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  • Danielle Cohn
    Key Cast
    "Rachel"
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  • Molly Kelleher
    Key Cast
    "Amanda"
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  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 6 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 23, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Austin Comedy Film Festival
    Austin
    United States
    Yes
    Best Comedy Micro Film
  • The Great Canadian Comedy Film Fest
    Toronto
    Canada
    November 24, 2023
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Katie Goodman

From the creators of Broad Comedy who have brought you 24 years of sketch comedy, shorts and musical satire, we present The Moms. Katie Goodman, along with her husband Soren Kisiel (author of "The Moms" and their award-winning film "The Karens"), are the co-writers and co-directors of Broad Comedy, an internationally touring, award-winning, all-women sketch comedy and political satire troupe headlined by Katie, which has garnered millions of views online, had an Off-Broadway run at the SoHo Playhouse in NYC, been featured at Caroline’s Comedy Club in Times Square, and was listed as one of the top ten sketch troupes at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Broad Comedy has been touring the USA for the last 20 years and has raised over $2,000,000 for progressive feminist causes through their comedy shows. Katie has been seen on Showtime’s The Green Room With Paul Provenza, and Impractical Jokers (and yes, she was in on the joke!). Katie and Soren were nominated for the White House Project’s Emerging Artists Award, and for the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for their unique work in theater.

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Director Statement

We thought we had opinions before we became parents. Political opinions; ethical opinions; stylistic opinions. Opinions that we would share, and debate. (Soren has the opinion that leftover pizza with peanut butter makes a great breakfast, and Katie, well, does not.)

But it was only after Katie got pregnant that we really understood. What had previously seemed like simple matters of preference suddenly became life-or-death. Natural childbirth, or epidurals? Breastmilk only, or supplemental formula? Sleep-training, or co-sleeping? Slings, or strollers?... Our opinions were affecting the actual future of an actual human being, who that human would become — they were suddenly the weightiest opinions we would ever have. Anyone with opposing opinions was cruel, or reckless, or just plain stupid.

On top of that, whichever opinions we happened to have required a lot of work. As the character Rachel says in the film, “When one has put a lot of effort into something, like if we let our baby learn to go to sleep by crying it out, or conversely if we spend endless sleepless nights cuddling our babies to sleep, either way we’ve really suffered through something. And so it can feel really important to us that we were right about our decision. Or we feel like we wasted our time suffering, you know?”

And then, once our child was two or three years old, we never thought of those particular opinions again. We could reenter society as reasonable people.