BABE I HATE TO GO

category: diaspora, documentaries, short films

BABE I HATE TO GO

A moving, intimate documentary about a Jamaican migrant worker struggling with a cancer diagnosis, "BABE, I HATE TO GO," shows us the world of the migrant worker, an invisible population numbering in the millions, across Canada and the United States.

directed by ANDREW MOIR
A producer and documentary filmmaker, Andrew Moir, pursues under-told stories that are intimate and with a highly personal point of view. His films include Uprooted (Hot Docs ‘11), a short about a tobacco farmer giving up his crop forever and the award-winning Just As I Remember (Hot Docs ‘13), a personal documentary about two young fathers living with ALS. His current projects include Babe, I Hate to Go (Hot Docs ’17, Sheffield ’17) a short and feature-length documentary about a Jamaican migrant worker forced to return home after a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Andrew lives in Toronto, Canada.

CANADA/JAMAICA || 2017 || 18 MINS