Zippi brand frank biography

Description from TIFF 2009 catalog by Thom Powers:

Necessity may be the mother of invention. But who is the parent of a child when the sperm comes from Israel, the egg comes from the United States and the surrogate pregnancy takes place in Gujarat, India?

Welcome to the brave new world of outsourcing birth.

Zippi brand frank biography

The system is driven by law and economics. In Israel, the practice of using surrogate mothers is marred by legal roadblocks. In the United States, it’s expensive. In India, it’s affordable, but Western clients want white babies.

Israeli director Zippi Brand Frank travels to three continents, following an entrepreneur named Doron who takes globalized business to a new level.

Google Baby skilfully humanizes the people involved at every step of the pregnancy.

No one would participate in any aspect of this process without having strong motivations, from the couples who yearn to have a child, to the American women who undergo the gruelling