text: Description: Big mama
  In Big Mama, a devoted grandmother struggles to raise her orphan grandson alone in southcentral Los Angeles. She deals with her own failing health, discrimination, and a bureaucratic and legal system that continually threatens to intervene and force them apart. This Academy Award winning documentary helps to shed light on the changing role of grandparents in society and the changing and diverse composition of the family.
  Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subjects, 2001.
  Editor, Geof Bartz ; cinematography, Tamara Goldsworthy ; original music, Bobby McFerrin ; for Home Box Office: executive producers, Sheila Nevins, Mitchell Block.