A Mother's Dream / Journeyman Pictures (Firm).

Making babies is big business in India. The Akanksha clinic is the largest outfit producing infants for clients, often foreigners, who can't conceive themselves. For the women who get pregnant on demand it's a way of escaping poverty but it's still deeply traumatic. Intimate narratives chart the asp...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors: Infobase (Film distributor)
Journeyman Pictures (Great Britain)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Journeyman Pictures (Firm), [2014]
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
Surrogate mothers > India.
India.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr. 25 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Making babies is big business in India. The Akanksha clinic is the largest outfit producing infants for clients, often foreigners, who can't conceive themselves. For the women who get pregnant on demand it's a way of escaping poverty but it's still deeply traumatic. Intimate narratives chart the aspirations and fears of client and surrogate. A sensitive but powerful ob-doc exposing the emotional hurdles involved in breaking the laws of mother nature.
Note:Originally released by Journeyman Pictures (Firm), 2014.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 08, 2016.
Interest Grade Level:
9 & up.
System Details:Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Source of Description:
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, October 16, 2016)