The Baby Formula | |
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Directed by | Alison Reid |
Written by | Richard Beattie |
Produced by | Stephen Adams James Mou Alison Reid |
Starring |
Angela Vint Megan Fahlenbock |
Cinematography | Brian Harper |
Edited by | Mark Arcieri |
Music by |
Robert Carli Tim Thorney |
Production company | Free Spirit Films |
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Country | Canada |
Language | English |
The Baby Formula is a 2008 Canadian mockumentary film, directed by Alison Reid. [1] The film stars Angela Vint and Megan Fahlenbock as Athena and Lilith, a lesbian couple each pregnant with the other's baby through an experimental stem cell procedure that created artificial sperm from their DNA. [2]
The film's cast also includes Rosemary Dunsmore, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Matt Baram and Maggie Cassella.
Both Vint and Fahlenbock were actually pregnant in real life during the production of the film. [3] Vint gave birth during filming, necessitating some adjustments to the production schedule. [4]
The film premiered in August 2008 at the Montreal World Film Festival. [5] It was screened at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto in 2009, [6] where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film. [7]