You Really Tried Your Hardest
Feature Film
Never a couple that has had to worry about their relationship, Isabel and Josh find themselves reeling after her sudden miscarriage 12 weeks into her pregnancy. Isabel, full of guilt and suddenly doubting if she’s even ‘cut out’ to be a mother in the first place and Josh’s overwhelming feeling of helplessness causes them to feel totally alone, despite being together. From a baby shower gone wrong, to a romantic date at a rage room to seemingly never-ending doctors appointments, You Really Tried Your Hardest is a modern love story that we've never really seen, despite the fact that 1 in 5 pregnancies end in loss.
It’s very urgent to me that I make this. I understand how incredibly lonely it feels to go through a miscarriage. We need empathy, compassion and awareness more now than ever.
My hope is that perhaps this film, when it's done and out there in the world, might make someone else feel even just a little less lonely and scared. Despite the fact that I’m making a film about this, I personally still find it heartbreaking and difficult to talk about my own journey through it all. I still sometimes feel a sense of guilt about it and I wanted to break that stigma as best I could.
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