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Making Babies
199250 min 50 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Gwynne Basen
Production: Mary ArmstrongNicole HubertNicole BélangerGinny StikemanRina Fraticelli
Script: Erna Buffie
Co-produced by Cinéfort Inc., the NFB and the CBC with the financial assistance of Telefilm Canada.
From a high tech marketplace in Paris, to the work being done at a fertility clinic in London, Ontario and a surrogacy centre in Los Angeles, Making Babies takes a critical look at reproductive technology and provides a chilling account of its development and use. Through interviews with doctors, drug salesmen, infertile women, surrogates, and social critics and feminist activists like Gena Corea, the film explores the origins and application of the technology and the dangers it may pose to women and to society as a whole.
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Subject categories
- Technology > BiotechnologyTechnology and Society
- Sexuality and Reproduction > InfertilityReproductive Technology
- Health and Medicine > Sexuality and ReproductionWomen
- Women > Sexuality and Reproduction
Credits
- director
- Gwynne Basen
- producer
- Mary Armstrong
- Nicole Hubert
- Nicole Bélanger
- executive producer
- Mary Armstrong
- Ginny Stikeman
- Rina Fraticelli
- script
- Erna Buffie
- photography
- Marielle Nitoslawska
- animation camera
- Jacques Avoine
- Raymond Dumas
- Lynda Pelley
- sound
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- editing
- Patricia Tassinari
- sound editing
- André Chaput
- re-recording
- Shelley Craig
- narrator
- Kathleen Fee
- music
- Air Tango
Awards
- Award of Merit - Category: DocumentaryItinerant - National Watch on Images of Women in Media (Mediawatch)
- Honorable Mention - Category: Science and NatureItinerant - American Film and Video Festival