Blog posts from July 2019

New Film: New Ways of Creating Families

The Online Sperm Donation Project

As engaged researchers, we are committed to finding ways to connect our research with wider society – to reach more diverse publics. One way to do this is through film. Film allows us to move away from the written word, to tell people’s stories with more intimacy, humanity, and aliveness. The film New Ways of Creating Families shares the experiences of two research participants, one recipient and one donor. It recounts moments from their lives, as shared during our research interviews. For authenticity and precision, the words spoken in the film are verbatim – they are the exact words each participant used to tell us about their lives. To protect the participants’ anonymity, their testimonies have been performed by two members of the research team.