Country: Canada
Year: 2008
Duration: 81'
Athena and Lilith are two women in love that dream of having a child “The Baby Formula follows a lesbian couple through their pregnancies
who is their true biological combination. They take a chance on an
experimental scientific process and with the help of Jim, a trusted lab
technician, they use sperm made from Lilith’s stem cells to inseminate
Athena. Lilith is happy to be an expectant mother, but secretly wishes
she was the pregnant one. She goes behind Athena’s back and convinces
Jim to help her with the same process. That causes some friction,
but everything is running smoothly, until their families get involved.
as if they are the first women in the world giving birth to each others
babies. The two actresses I cast were both pregnant in real life, and this
resulted in some incredible experiences in shooting the film. We have
real footage of the pregnancies, and of the mothers with their new born
babies. Life did indeed imitate art when Angela Vint (Athena) had her
water break as we were rehearsing the scene in which her character’s
water breaks.”
Biography
film director
Alison Reid
Alison Reid (Toronto, Canada) is a veteran stunt coordinator with over 200 credits including features such as Blindness, Saw II, III and IV. After second unit directing on several television shows including Showtime’s DC 911: Time of Crisis, USA Network’s
series The War Next Door, she made her short film directorial debut with Succubus which she also cowrote and produced. The film screened at over 50 festivals worldwide. She is now focused exclusively on her directing career and she has several projects in development including the action/drama Hard Knocks and the black comedy Sissiboo.
FILMOGRAFIA
Succubus (cm, 2006), The Baby Formula (2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Alison Reid
soggetto, sceneggiatura/ story, screenplay Richard Beattie
fotografia/cinematography Brian Harper
montaggio/film editing Mark Arcieri
scenografia/production design Bob Sher
costumi/costume design Leslie Kavanaugh, Melanie Jennings
musica/music Robert Carli
suono/sound Mike Welker
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Angela Vint (Athena), Megan Fahlenbock (Lilith), Rosemary Dunsmore (Wanda), Roger Dunn (Karl), Jessica Booker (la nonna/Grandma Kate), Dmitry Chepovetsky (Larry), Michael Hanrahan (Edward), Hal Eisen (Daniel), RD Reid (dottor/Dr Oldenfield), Matt Baram (Jim)
produttori/producers Alison Reid, James Mou, Stephen Adams
produzione/production Free Spirit Films Inc.
coproduttore/coproducer Paul Lee
vendita all’estero/world sales Grindstone Media Inc.
soggetto, sceneggiatura/ story, screenplay Richard Beattie
fotografia/cinematography Brian Harper
montaggio/film editing Mark Arcieri
scenografia/production design Bob Sher
costumi/costume design Leslie Kavanaugh, Melanie Jennings
musica/music Robert Carli
suono/sound Mike Welker
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Angela Vint (Athena), Megan Fahlenbock (Lilith), Rosemary Dunsmore (Wanda), Roger Dunn (Karl), Jessica Booker (la nonna/Grandma Kate), Dmitry Chepovetsky (Larry), Michael Hanrahan (Edward), Hal Eisen (Daniel), RD Reid (dottor/Dr Oldenfield), Matt Baram (Jim)
produttori/producers Alison Reid, James Mou, Stephen Adams
produzione/production Free Spirit Films Inc.
coproduttore/coproducer Paul Lee
vendita all’estero/world sales Grindstone Media Inc.