| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2010. |
| Summary |
In San Antonio, Lisa and Brian Switzer risk their savings with a Medical Tourism company promising them an affordable solution after seven years of infertility. Halfway around the world in Mumbai, 27-year-old Aasia Khan, mother of three, contracts with a fertility clinic to be implanted with the Texas couple's embryos. MADE IN INDIA, about real people involved in international surrogacy, follows the Switzers and Aasia through every stage of the process. With its dual focus, this emotionally charged, thoroughly absorbing film charts obstacles faced by the Switzers and presents intimate insights into Aasia's circumstances and motivation. As their stories become increasingly intertwined, the bigger picture behind offshore outsourcing of pregnancies-a booming, unregulated reproductive industry valued at $450 million in India alone-begins to emerge. So do revealing questions about international surrogacy's legal and ethical implications, global corporate practices, human and reproductive rights, and commodification of the body. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English,Hindi |
| Subject |
Asians.
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Human rights.
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Documentary films.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Haimowitz, Rebecca, film director.
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Sinha, Vaishali, film director.
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Women Make Movies (Firm) Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm) Distributor.
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| Music No. |
12256554 Kanopy |
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