Choosing children
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✎ Suggest a correctionHailed as a pioneering achievement when it was first released in 1984, Choosing Children dramatically challenges the assumption that being lesbian means you can't be a mom. Six lesbian-headed families make decisions about how to become pregnant, navigate the process of adoption, whether to involve men in parenting, and address reactions from relatives, doctors and schoolmates. In so doing, they help redefine what "family" means and open the door for everyone to consider parenting, regardless of sexual orientation.
Credits
New Day Films (film distributor); Chasnoff, Debra, 1957-2017, film director (film editor); Klausner, Kim, film director (film editor); Margaret Lazarus (film producer); Karla Clement (director of photography); Near, Holly, composer (expression) (singer); Williams, Noel, arranger of music (composer (expression))
Complete catalog record
Original source: "The 16mm camera original of Choosing children is lost. The film has been preserved from the best surviving projection print. Preserved in 2009." | Originally released in 1985. | Bonus: The back story: interview with the filmmakers (behind the scenes documentary (20 min.) includes director's interviews, the story behind making a film on a taboo topic in the 1980s, and updates about families featured in the film); About the filmmakers. | Camera, Karla Clement ; editing, Debra Chasnoff, Kim Klausner ; song written and sung by Holly Near ; arranged and scored by Noel Williams.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | DVD video 4 3/4 in. | polychrome | laser optical NTSC | video file DVD video all region
Subjects: Lesbian mothers | Lesbian parents
Language note: In English with optional subtitles in Spanish, and in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Awards: Best Short Documentary - New York Gay and Lesbian film Festival; First Prize - National Educational Film Festival; Best Documentary - New England Film Festival.
Physical description: 1 videodisc (46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | DVD video 4 3/4 in. | polychrome | laser optical NTSC | video file DVD video all region
Subjects: Lesbian mothers | Lesbian parents
Language note: In English with optional subtitles in Spanish, and in English for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Awards: Best Short Documentary - New York Gay and Lesbian film Festival; First Prize - National Educational Film Festival; Best Documentary - New England Film Festival.
Sources
- UCLA Library Catalog · record ↗ — title, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q106795700 ↗ — year, country
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