Chicago International Film Festival, 1977 – Silver Hugo
Filmex – Certificate of Merit
Melbourne Film Festival – Diploma of Merit
Leipzig Film Festival – Official Selection
Berlin Film Festival – Official Selection
Forum of Young Cinema, Berlin
Nyon Film Festival, Switzerland – Official Selection
Rotterdam Film Festival – Official Selection
Edinburgh Film Festival – Official Selection
Sydney Film Festival – Official Selection
Festival Dei Popoli, Florence, Italy – Official Selection
Festival da Figueria de Foz, Portugal – Official Selection
L’Homme Regarde L’Homme, 1978
The Great Lakes Film Festival, 1978
For more than 75 years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. However, when modern medicine’s attitude toward home birth changed and funding from Northwestern University declined in 1974, the center was forced to close. This film interweaves the history of the center with the stories of a young woman about to have her first baby and the center’s fight to stay open in the face of the corporate takeover of medicine.