The mission of BABY! International Film Festival is to offer film images that will deepen and expand our sense of trust about pregnancy, birth, and parenting. We believe many personal and social problems can be prevented or decreased by proper support of the family during pregnancy, birth and the first 5 years of the child’s life. In addition, we hold the intention to use the film festival event as a focal point for organizations providing services for families and children, encouraging them to network and giving them the opportunity to increase their public visibility. We place a particular emphasis on including young adults and people from all ethnic and racial origins, as we believe that it is through diversity and the voices of all ages that we may come into a state of deeper understanding of what it is means to be be born. Our productions aim to open your heart and mind to the true nature of babies.
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Debby Takikawa is the producer and director of What Babies Want, an award winning documentary film about babies. A chiropractor by formal training, Debby Takikawa founded the nonprofit organization, Beginnings, Inc. in 2001 as a way of supporting a clinic and teaching facility for children and their families who were facing attachment issues, birth trauma, and other health challenges. The clinic was also a teaching facility serving intern candidates for the MFT program. The organization had a mandate for public outreach and education, and it was through this arm of the nonprofit that Debby set about to make the film What Babies Want.
Shelley Campbell is a mother, grandmother, financial, human resources and business manager, corporate trainer, writer, storyteller, doula and childbirth educator. Shelley has had a diverse career spanning financial management and corporate training to advocacy for mothers, children and families. After fifteen years in corporate management she turned her attention to children with a special emphasis on newborns and birth.Shelley is a Certified Hypnotherapist, A.C.H.E. She is a Certified Doula (DONA) and has certified as a HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator and teacher of CALM BIRTH.Her writing has appeared in Mothering Magazine and International Doula. Since the 1990s Shelley’s work has centered on women and children. She was the Assistant Director and Infant Caregiver at KidsCentre in Seattle for 4 years, a large childcare facility which cares for 85 children ages 6 weeks to 4 years.In 2000 her attention shifted to birthing women and newborns and she became a doula. As a certified hypnotherapist she believes the mind-body connection is critical at birth. Respect for mother and child, an awareness of the natural intelligence of the body and the power of love and non-violence to create a new way of birthing are her passions. She teaches a holistic childbirth preparation class with an emphasis on using hypnosis as a bridge into the natural trance of labor. To learn more, or to make contact with Shelley, visit her website at BROUGHT TO YOU BY 
 Our programming aims to: • reduce parental isolation• enhance early childhood development • increase preparation for adulthood Are you |