Lisa Kennedy The tried and true way to break viewers’ hearts is to make them care deeply. “Aftershock” wastes no time in doing just that.
Filmmaking duo Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee begin their emotionally resonant, statistically chilling documentary about the dramatically increased numbers of maternal death and morbidity among Black women in the U.S.
with montages of two lives. Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac were two young, healthy women who went to hospitals to have their babies and died.
Starting with life-affirming scenes of the two vibrant, engaging young women is a decidedly “say her name” salvo.Who was lost and who they left behind is one of the most powerful ways for storytellers to connect us to tragedies that result from systemic failures. “Aftershock” is the word Shamony’s mother, Shawnee Benton Gibson, used to describe what her feelings were after the unexpected death of her daughter.
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