
2025
Saving Mum: Our Family Secret
In a raw emotional reckoning, British South Asian filmmaker Maleena Pone tries to repair a complicated relationship with her mum, confronting a legacy of silence, alcohol dependency and grief
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1964-08-17 · 62 yrs
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Laurence J. Bowen (born 17 August 1964) is a British television and film producer. After graduating from Oxford University in the 1980s, Bowen began his television career working for Bill Bryden at BBC Scotland as a researcher and trainee script editor before moving on to run the development arm of non-profit organisation First Film Foundation which he helped set up to champion new writers and film makers backed by a board that included Jeremy Thomas, David Putnam and Roland Joffé. In 1993 he left to work for Simon Curtis in the BBC where he produced Paradise (with Penny Downie and Dave Hill) for BBC2. Soon after he was appointed Head of Drama at Diverse Productions where he went on to produce The Hello Girls, Stone, Scissors, Paper (with Juliet Stevenson and Ken Stott, winner of the inaugural Dennis Potter Award) and Dual Balls (nominated for Bafta Film Award).…