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Making Perfect 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.
Filmed in clinics and research centres where genetic manipulation of human embryos has already begun, Making Perfect Babies offers a critical examination of the new genetic technology and its potential applications. Through interviews with people like scientist and feminist, Ruth Hubbard, and disability activist Marsha Saxton, the film raises important questions about why the technology is being developed and how it may affect the lives of women and society as a whole. It warns that we may be heading toward a future in which quality control is an acceptable part of human procreation.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > BioethicsGenetics
- Technology > BiotechnologyTechnology and Society
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Reproductive Technology
- 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
- Dominique Sicotte
- sound editing
- Jackie Newell
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- Shelley Craig
- narrator
- Kathleen Fee
- music
- Air Tango
Awards
- ANZAAS/CSIRO Prize for Best Science Film - with a cash prize of 1,500$AUST (ex aequo with The Northern Lights)International Film Festival
- 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