The premise of Reid's film centres on protagonists Lilith and Athena - a lesbian married couple - and their attempts to conceive one another's baby. The inspiration for this fictional pseudo-sci-fi flick is actual scientific research that has proven that female mice can reproduce by using stem cells of other female mice in the place of sperm. While this technology is still years away from hitting the mainstream, Reid hoped that by making this film it might inspire further research, or at the very least inspire hope for same sex and/or infertile couples wanting to have babies with one another's DNA. "It's so sad to me when people in love can't have kids. It's so natural to want to have a baby by the person you're in love with," says Reid.
For this film, it so happened that actresses Megan Fahlenbock (Lilith) and Angela Vint (Athena) were actually going to be having babies of their own, so Reid leapt at the opportunity to shoot while they wouldn't
The result is, happily, a genuinely laugh-out-loud funny and moving film that manages to stay well clear of the pitfalls plaguing so much Canadian cinema. This is one baby we should be proud to call our own.
The Baby FormulaAt the Montreal World Festival, Quartier Latin, Aug. 25, 26, 29, 30 For screening info: www.ffm-montreal.org/cgi-bin/ffmfilms?Action=fest_detail&num=26702&lng=EN
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