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Eden Wurmfeld is a Film & TV Producer who has been making both fiction and documentary films since 1994. She produced the award-winning indie hit Kissing Jessica Stein, acquired by Fox Searchlight bringing it to hit box office success.
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A film by Margaret Munzer Loeb & Eden Wurmfeld. Chasing Childhood is a feature length documentary that explores how free play and independence have all but disappeared from kids’ lives, supplanted by relentless perfectionism leading to record rates of anxiety and depression, a situation now compounded by the pandemic.
- Let Grow: What Is Chasing Childhoodabout?
- What Do You Mean by “Overparenting”?
- Is This Just Happening in The Upper-Middle Class?
- And Now?
- And That’S Due, at Least in Part, to Overprotection?
- Where Does This Overprotection Come from?
- And What Prompted You to Contact Let Grow?
- What Do You Think Parents Will Get from Your Film?
- What Are Teachers Saying?
Eden Wurmfeld:It’s about the unintended consequences of overparenting. How, with the best of intentions, we may be doing our children a disservice.
Being involved in our kids’ lives to the point where they have very few minutes without the supervision of an adult or [when kids are] in an organized activity where they’re being told what to do.
I was wondering that myself! The movie started out from a really personal place. [Co-director] Margaret [Loeb] and I were talking about how we grew up in New York City and how differently we’re raising our children. I have a photo of myself in my first-grade classroom, and my house key is around my neck. So I’m not misremembering that I would come ...
We focused on three distinctly different environments: One was very upper-middle class—Wilton, Connecticut, which is mostly white. One was a New York City public middle school. And one was the Patchogue-Medford School District on Long Island, which is largely cops, firefighters, teachers, and a large [Latinx] population. It’s not a wealthy place. A...
There’s a real danger to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. I went to Studio 54 in eighthgrade on a semi-regular basis, and I don’t think you want your kids in clubs at age 13! But I also think that we’ve gone too far in the other direction. The age at which we send our children out of the house has remained unchanged for around 100 yea...
It’s really multi-factorial. In the movie we look at “stranger-danger,” and the Etan Patz and Adam Walsh [kidnapping] stories. And we look at changes in education—the idea that “American schools are failing,” and we have to “teach to the test,” which puts incredible pressure on students and teachers to perform. And the culture leaning toward hyper-...
In our initial research, Lenore Skenazy’s name came up so many times, she was our very first interview. [And then we started visiting] schools doing the Let Grow Project.
I really hope this movie can lead to change. We all adore our children and want the very best for them. Maybe we have to reexamine some of what’s happening.
They’ve been seeing that something is “off” in childhood. I’m betting some will do the Let Grow Project because it’s one step toward a healthier culture for our children. If you want to know more about the Let Grow Project, try out our free Independence Kit.
Jun 25, 2021 · Chasing Childhood: Directed by Margaret Munzer Loeb, Eden Wurmfeld. With Peter Gray, Julie Lythcott-Haims, Lenore Skenazy. In today's highly charged world of structure, stranger danger, and helicopter parenting, free play in childhood has disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression.
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- Margaret Munzer Loeb, Eden Wurmfeld
- 2021-06-25
Sep 16, 2022 · Courtesy of TIFF. A humdrum thriller that clumsily digs into themes of sexual and emotional trauma, Amy Redford ’s sophomore feature “What Comes Around” follows Anna (Grace Van...
Eden Wurmfeld is an Emmy-nominated fiction and documentary producer and director who is committed to ushering compelling characters and moving stories to the screen. Most recently, Eden produced The Big Scary “S” Word, currently in the festival circuit.
