Audiences are flocking to see Alison Reid's new film, "The Baby Formula"

For those of you following the film festival circuit - and if you haven't already seen it - Director Alison Reid's hilarious feature film, "The Baby Formula" is winning audiences over, internationally, and critics are starting to take notice. It has played to packed houses at film festivals in Montreal, Berlin, Mannheim-Heidelberg, Rotterdam. among others, and is the sold-out opening night film at Vancouver's Women In Film Festival this week.

Reid's film is a mock-documentary which follows a lesbian couple, Athena (Angela Vint) and Lilith (Megan Fahlenbock), who, via not-so-futuristic stem-cell science, become pregnant with one another's biological children.  Although it is, on the surface, a comedy, it also deftly weaves in serious issues of biological ethics, family conflict, religion, and aging, without losing its levity.

The inspiration for this original film is based in 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 "The Baby Formula" it might inspire further research, or at the very least, inspire hope for the 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", Reid says, "It's so natural to want to have a baby by the person you're in love with". She states, "this scientific backdrop becomes a pallet for a story that is ultimately about family, and the common ground facing us all, despite our diversity". 

"The Baby Formula" is Alison Reid's second film - a feature-length follow-up to her wildly popular short film, "Succubus" which played to over 50 international film festivals, in over 10 countries.  

With "The Baby Formula", Reid marks her shift from a 25 year career in stunts and stunt coordinating, working on popular films such as "Blindness", "Breakfast With Scott", and Atom Egoyan's upcoming "Chloe", and several television series, including "Being Erica", and "Degrassi: The Next Generation"

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