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In Our Own Image
200440 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Caroline R. Maria
Production: Caroline R. Maria
Script: Caroline R. MariaJoan Scott
Produced by Cinemaria with the collaboration of RDI, the Documentary Channel and Radio-Canada, in association with CBC Newsworld, with the financial participation of the National Film Board of Canada partially funded by Aide au cinéma indépendant (Canada) - ACIC Programme français, and with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry, the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles, Writers Guild of Canada and Actra.
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Given a choice, what parent wouldn't pick good health for their baby, over a life-threatening disease?
Science is making that choice possible for a growing list of genetic conditions. That's the good news. The bad news is the choices aren't always so clear-cut and may change how society deals with people who are perceived as 'different'.
This film discloses the challenges faced by families with hereditary disorders, who must now decide what parents just a generation ago couldn't even imagine--whether or not to have a child "in their own image." It's a rare glimpse into what the future has in store for the rest of us as tests reveal more and more about what's in our genes.
In Our Own Image follows two couples planning the birth of a child who may inherit their own genetic condition (dwarfism in one case, cystic fibrosis in the other). For them, these are life-or-death questions.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > BioethicsGenetics
- Sciences > BiologyEthics and BioethicsScientific Perspectives
Credits
- director
- Caroline R. Maria
- writer
- Caroline R. Maria
- Joan Scott
- narrator
- Yvan Huneault
- director of photography
- Gary Theobald
- sound recording
- Chris Breier
- Alaska crew
- Tim Boese
- Russell Weston
- off-line editor
- Josée Trottier
- assistant director
- Josée Trottier
- online editor
- Sylvain Desbiens
- associate producer
- Richard C. Fortin
- Joan Scott
- production coordinator
- Benoit Delpech
- production assistant
- Jean-Sébastien Jasenovic
- sound design
- Jean-Phillippe Desindes
- Marc-André Nadeau
- music
- Robert Marchand
- animation
- Franck Maillet
- executive producer
- Caroline R. Maria