In From Janet with Love, the daughter of a Filipino pen-pal bride explores her mother’s life as an immigrant care worker and DIY philanthropist.
Janet arrived in Canada when she was 21, newly married to Danny, a factory worker who fell in love with Janet’s pen-pal catalog photo.
Janet works in accounting. Weekends and evenings she cares for frail, affluent seniors, donating much of her paltry earnings to impoverished youth in her former village.
Jennifer, her Canadian daughter, hates seeing Janet treated as another “replaceable, submissive Filipina”. Across this mother-daughter divide, they try to understand one another.
Writer/director: Helene Klodawsky
Photographer: Rita Leistner
Producer: Kat Baulu
Music: Andrew Whiteman
Illustrator: Fred Casia
Story consultant: Jennifer Haydock
Series producer: Nicholas Klassen
Project manager: Camille Fillion
Interface designer: Aubyn Freybe-Smith
Technical director: Dana Dansereau
