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Film is the premiere vehicle of change in our world today. Shelley CampbellFilm ListThe following films have all been released to be shown at the BABY! International Film Festival in any location. If you are interested in screening any of these films, click here. |
 | Angels in the Dust Angels in the Dust is a story of hope and healing in the face of a staggering crisis. AIDS is leaving entire South African villages decimated and thousands of children orphaned, with no adults to raise them. The inspiring story of Marion Cloete, a university-trained therapist who — with her husband and three daughters — fearlessly walked away from a privileged life in a wealthy Johannesburg suburb to build Botsabelo, an extraordinary village and school that provides shelter, food, and education to more than 550 South African children.
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 | Baby-Led Breastfeeding Kittie Frantz RN, and Christina Smillie, MD — long time experts in the field of breastfeeding — created this film to provide us with the baby’s perspective. She stimulates us to think about the secret drives of the infant in this intimate relationship between mother and infant. Kittie Frantz, RN; Christina Smillie, MD Producers
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 | The Big Stretch THE BIG STRETCH is a DVD produced by Alieta Belle and Jenny Blyth that presents a fresh insight into the amazing journey each woman takes in becoming a mother. Women in different stages of pregnancy and preparing for a natural birth reflect on how they ‘stretched’ in everyway - emotionally, physically and spiritually. You are invited to become intimately engaged, share in the transformation, and follow their stories to the first moments and days after birth. Topics explored: breath awareness, pain and the intensity of birth, vaginal and body awareness, women’s challenges, asking for help, relationship and personal transformation.
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 | Birthday This favorite short birth video, beloved by parents, childbirth educators and midwives, captures the beauty of a homebirth filmed in the countryside of Xalapa, Mexico. Narrated by mother and midwife, Naoli Vinaver. Diana Paul, Producer/Director
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 | Birth As We Know It This groundbreaking new film is aimed at illuminating future parents on the impact of conscious conception, pregnancy and birth. In this stunningly beautiful video, Director Elena Tonetti-Vladimirova shares her experiences as one of the co-creators of the “Conscious Birth” movement in Russia during the early 1980’s. Elena Tonetti, Director
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 | Birth of Sabine Sabine’s video shows us the excitement and anticipation of a mom’s first pregnancy. The story follows Stephanie and James from the positive pregnancy test, prenatal visits with their midwife, a belly cast, to the unexpected surprise of her water breaking days before labor begins. This is how one family navigates the ins and outs of pregnancy, labor and birth. James Westby Andaluz Waterbirth Center
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 | Breast Is Best In response to a decline in the number of women who breastfed their babies, the Norwegian government promoted this inspiring, informational video, and Norway’s society has reaped the benefits. Norway now has over 80% breastfeeding success. Direction and script: Gro Nylander | |||
 | The Business of Being Born In this candid and eye-opening documentary, director Abby Epstein and producer Ricki Lake explore and question the way American women have babies. Shocking facts (to men and women alike) regarding the historical and current practices of the child birthing industry are interwoven with stories of couples who decide to give birth on their own terms. "I wanted to make this movie after my two very different birth experiences with my children. I felt like I had an opportunity to explore and question birthing practices in this country and perhaps be an advocate for mothers’ rights and better maternity care." (Ricki Lake) Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein, Amy Slotnick, Producers
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 | Delivery Self-attachment Babies are able to do amazing things if allowed to be born with out interference! Produced by Dr Lennart Righard and Kittie Frantz
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 | FINDING THE WORDS Over a ten year period the rate of autism increased in California by 273%. In the US, neurological disorders have reached epidemic proportions. What is the cause? Could vaccines play a part? What does it take to heal? The message is: There is hope. Children can recover. Elizabeth Horn, Horn Productions, Inc.
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 | Formula For Disaster 2007 UNICEF shows us how sophisticated ads, clever promotions and bribery is killing an estimated 1.5 million babies each year. Filmed in the Philippines. “The milk companies’ formula for profits is a formula for disaster,” and this film alerts us to the easily remedied causes. UNICEF Philippines
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 | It’s My Body, My Baby, My Birth San Francisco homebirth midwife, Maria Iorillo shares homebirth stories and interviews of clients from her very multicultural practice. This is a good film for women and families exploring their childbirth choices. Maria Iorillo, Producer
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 | Kangaroo Care This is the “How-To, Why-To” video that summarizes the latest research to prove that the newborn thrives best on his mother’s chest. How to wrap the baby to mother’s chest is also shown. Kangaroo Mother Care enables baby to relax, improves the heart rate and body temperature. By Nils Bergman, M.D. You can e-mail Dr. Bergman at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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 | Orgasmic Birth Orgasmic Birth is a documentary that examines the intimate nature of birth, an everyday miracle, and the powerful role it plays in women’s lives when they are permitted to experience it fully. This documentary asks viewers to reexamine everything they thought they knew about giving birth and the potential it holds. Undisturbed birth is revealed as an integral part of women’s sexuality and a widely neglected human right. Couples share their birth experiences, discussing their fears and how they found the support, nurturing, and ultimately the power and strength within themselves to labor and birth their babies in a beautiful, loving, and ecstatic way.
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 | Pockets Produced and art by Sophie Mead The spirited journey through motherhood is told in this animated story, which begins with a woman and a pocket-less dress.
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 | Political Midwifery The ancient practice of Midwifery has struggled to survive through generations of women since the Burning Times. Today, in what is considered a modern day witch hunt, a political boiling point has again been reached. Investigations in Washington State have increasingly forced midwives to go “on trial” in hearings before the State Department of Health following complaints filed by medical professionals against midwives whose homebirth clients have transported to hospital. In an overwhelming number of these investigations, midwives lose their license, midwifery practice and, in some cases, home and birthing center. In “Political Midwifery“, midwives, homebirth mothers and natural birth advocates speak to the nature of the investigations and the increasing rift between the Medical Model of Care and the Traditional Midwifery Model of Care.
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 | Waterbirth in the 21st Century By showing you these pictures we try to give you useful objective information about how the waterbirths are done by our team in Ostend. More than 18 years of experience and 3500 waterbirths gave us an increasing confidence in a positive physical and psychological effects of a warm aquatic environment. Our water birth-team in Ostend consists of a variety of different professionals who provide a prenatal aquatic preparation and give the possibility afterwards for the new parents to help their baby get further accustomed to the aquatic environment. Producer Fabien Raes
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 | What Babies Want What Babies Want is an award-winning documentary film that explores the profoundly important and sacred opportunity we have in bringing children into the world. Filled with captivating stories and infused with Noah Wyle’s warmth as narrator, the film demonstrates how life patterns are established at birth and before. The documentary includes groundbreaking information on early development as well as appearances by the real experts: babies and families. Debby Takikawa, Producer/Director
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