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Damian is half-bear, half-boy, his mother is a dominatrix, and this coming-of-age story is one you won’t forget.
Damian is a half-human, half-bear child, raised sheltered in an Old World fashion by his “Mama”(a dominatrix/therapist), his step-father, Gunter (a gentleman drunk), and his nanny.
As Damian reaches adolescence he begins to rebel and expand his world.
He befriends a trailer-trash kid from the neighborhood and there the trouble/adventure begins.
A coming-of-age comedy, it traces a week in the life of Damian. We meet unusual characters, including, Opa (the Nazi grandfather chained in the basement), Hans Bobbie (Damian’s arch nemesis), and Jolene (whose big toe is her partially digested twin).
Mama holds the family together, but she becomes unraveled when Damian gets into too much trouble.
Her hobbies include researching human behavior and making bondage love with Gunter.
- Directed by Kathi Lehmer
- Written by Kathi Lehmer
- Produced by Kathi Lehmer
- Running Time 76 min
- Release Date 2007
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Country
United States of America
- Content Rating Intended Audience: mature
- Website Mama and Damian
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Written by Kathi Lehmer
Produced by Kathi Lehmer
Cast W.G. White:
Hesta Barron:
Ashley Cleaver:
Todd Michael Smith:
Chuck Fusca:
Helen Rei:
Jeremiah Thompson:
During the filming of Mama and Damian, both lead actors were involved in serious car accidents.
W.G. White(Damian), was hit by a car on his way to a shoot. Hesta Barron(Mama), was rear-ended by a tractor trailer. Both actors suffered concussions and memory loss.
Production continued and the filming was finished eleven months after it had begun.
Director, Kathi Lehmer, said, "It was the happiest set I have ever been on. We never stopped laughing."
Lehmer, with help from her supportive landlord and her ex-husband, designed her new apartment to be the main set of her movie. She said, "I was looking for locations, then all of a sudden it dawned on me that the place I was moving into would make a perfect set for Damian and his family.Preparing for a shoot was easy. All I had to do was roll out of bed and answer the door".
Mama and Damian was shot entirely with a Panasonic DVX100 digital video camera.
Mama and Damian came out of a few different experiences. The idea intially came from W.G. White and I finding a bear-child doll in the lost-and-found at the book store where we worked. We started making up little vignettes about the bear-boy, who we named Damian. After a while we had made up so many characters that I decided to write a script. I added dashes of my own childhood, the experience of growing up German and possibly Jewish in a very German area of the country. I also drew on my own experience of being a mother to a son.
I have lived a number of places and met all kinds of people. Eventually the script became a portrait of life in America. The idea that everyone is some kind of freak, but that most people only recognize it in others,not themselves, became a central theme and the tagline, "Being a freak is not a curse, it's a gift."
