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2008 Canadian film

The Baby Formula

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
Release date	August 25, 2008 (2008-08-25) (FFM)
Country	Canada
Language	English

The Baby Formula is a 2008 Canadian mockumentary film, directed by Alison Reid. 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.

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. Vint gave birth during filming, necessitating some adjustments to the production schedule.

The film premiered in August 2008 at the Montreal World Film Festival. It was screened at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in Toronto in 2009, where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.

References

Ben Kaplan, "A nine month shoot; New movie The Baby Formula was a real labour of love for all involved". National Post, June 18, 2009.
Barry Hertz, "A plot that's hard to conceive". The Globe and Mail, June 19, 2009.
Victoria Ahearn, "Oh, baby! Actors "The Baby Formula" were really pregnant during shooting". Canadian Press, June 14, 2009.
Eric Volmers, "Real life invades gay baby comedy". Calgary Herald, May 28, 2009.
John Griffin, "Life imitating art; Biologically prepared for their roles as pregnant women, the co-stars of The Baby Formula enjoyed acting on a set that allowed them the luxury of being themselves". Montreal Gazette, August 26, 2008.
Jason Anderson, "Inside Out goes baby crazy". Toronto Star, May 15, 2009.
Mike Vokins, "Is it real or science fiction?". Xtra!, June 17, 2009.

External links

The Baby Formula at IMDb

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Inside Out Film and Video Festival Audience Award for Best Feature Film

Everything Will Be Fine (1998)
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
The Adventures of Felix (2000)
Big Eden (2001)
Gypsy 83 (2002)
Madame Satã (2003)
Latter Days (2004)
Saving Face (2005)
A Love to Hide (2006)
The Bubble (2007)
Were the World Mine (2008)
The Baby Formula (2009)
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Weekend (2011)
Margarita (2012)
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
Tru Love (2014)
4th Man Out (2015)
Angry Indian Goddesses (2016)
Sisterhood (2017)
White Rabbit (2018)
Billie and Emma (2019)
Gossamer Folds (2020)
Love, Spells and All That (2021)
We Will Never Belong (2022)
I Used to Be Funny (2023)
Sisters (2024)

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