Exclusive interview: Director Kate Dolan talks hit horror ‘You Are Not My Mother’


You only get one chance to make a first impression, something writer and director Kate Dolan has

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pulled off impressively with her debut feature You Are Not My Mother.

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The atmospheric and haunting combination of supernatural horror and family drama follows three

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generations of an Irish clan all traumatized in different ways by the same event.

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Hazel Doupe’s Char endures the trials and tribulations of high school life,

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while also dealing with her increasingly withdrawn mother Angela (played by Carolyn Bracken),

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who’s been suffering from mental health problems.

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When Angela suddenly disappears without a trace, only to return home without explanation and possessing a very different personality,

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Ingrid Craigie’s superstitious matriarch Rita instantly assumes something sinister is afoot.

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