Matriarch: A Woman’s World

In production
19 September 2020
I Of The Water
4 September 2023

Matriarch: A Woman’s World


Feature Documentary and broadcast series
Genre – Social issue, observational documentary
Director/ Producer – Izzy Chan
Co-producer – Marilyn McFadyen

Imagine a world led by women. “Matriarch” transports viewers to four long-established but largely unknown matriarchal societies through the eyes of four females—a Khasi Indian girl that everyone expects to rule one day, an adolescent Tuareg African growing into womanhood, a Mosuo Chinese mother at a crossroads in mid-life, and a Minangkabau Indonesian grandmother protecting her clan’s future. See what it’s like to grow up and grow old in a woman’s world.

Martriarch World