
A Healthy Baby Girl
1996 | 57 minutes | Color | 16mm/DVD | Order No. 99490
SYNOPSIS
A HEALTHY BABY GIRL was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
PRESS
"Turns medical statistics into human beings and as it mixes with the rich affection of the family at its center becomes something irresistible and transforming.
"A must-see....One of the best films ever made which goes beyond facts and figures to show the impact-on an entire family-of corporate disregard for women's health.
"A vital resource.Medical school libraries should definitely purchase so the doctors and nurses of tomorrow can be made aware of the huge impact of past medical decisions."
SCREENING HIGHLIGHTS AND AWARDS
- Peabody Award, 1997
- Margaret Mead Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- IDA Best Documentary Nomination
- HeSCA Media Award, Honorable Mention
- Sydney Int'l Film Festival, Best Documentary
- Atlanta Film and Video Fest, Best Documentary
ABOUT FILMMAKER(S)
Judith Helfand is best known for her ability to take the dark worlds of chemical exposure, heedless corporate behavior and environmental injustice and make them personal, highly-charged and entertaining. Her films include the Sundance Award-winning BLUE VINYL (co-directed with Daniel B. Gold) and its Peabody Award-winning prequel A HEALTHY BABY GIRL, as well as EVERYHTING'S COOL, also co-directed with Gold.
In 2007 she received a Rockefeller Media Fellowship and a United States Artist Fellowship, one of 50 awarded annually to "America's finest living artists" and more recently a MacArthur grant for her current film-in-progress COOKED - an exploration into extreme heat, extreme disparity and the politics of "disaster."
An educator and activist, Helfand is as dedicated to building the field as she is to her own body of work. She’s taught undergraduate documentary filmmaking at NYU for seven years, Doc Boot Camp at New School University for three summers and was Filmmaker-in-Residence at UW-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in 2007 and 2009 where she taught graduate students how to make "environmental films" and co-designed a unique hands-on engagement class built around the bi-annual Tales from Planet Earth Environmental Film Festival. "How to most effectively leverage a local film festival" was based on her work at Working Films, which she co-founded in 1999. In 2005 she co-founded Chicken & Egg Pictures, a non-profit film fund dedicated to supporting women documentary filmmakers with strategic grants matched by timely creative "hands-with" mentorship. (8/14)