Date/Time
Tuesday
13 Oct 2015
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Location
470 Stephens Hall

Event Type
Film

Please join us October 13 on the UC Berkeley campus for the the second film event of the Being Human in the Biotech Age 2015/ 2016 series the award- winning documentary Made in India co- directed by Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha.

Made in India is a documentary about the human experiences behind the concept of “outsourcing” surrogate mothers in India. The film depicts the journey of an infertile American couple, and Indian surrogate and the reproductive outsourcing business.

The screening and Post- Film discussion will take place at 4pm on Tuesday, October 13 at 470 Stephens Hall. Mark your calendars!

About the Film Series:

With powerful new biotechnologies now emerging, the prospect of creating humans with “better” genetic characteristics is on the horizon.  Some support these technologies as a way to “seize control of human evolution” or as an efficient means of producing “enhanced” children and future generations.  Others believe that they would encourage efforts to engineer children to specification, and that creating genetically modified humans would open the door to new forms of inequality, discrimination and conflict. This film series explores what it means to be human in a biotech age. All films will be screened on Tuesdays at 4:00 pm at 470 Stephens Hall – UC Berkeley. The series website provides the schedule for fall 2015/2016.