EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has announced an August 13 debut for A Child of My Own (Un Hijo Propio), the new documentary from two-time Oscar nominee Maite Alberdi.
The film examines the strange case of Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza, known as Ale, a young woman in Mexico who felt so much pressure from her husband and in-laws to have a baby that she faked her own pregnancy. While sustaining the ruse for months, Ale arranged with an expectant young mother who didn’t want her child to take that woman’s newborn as her own. That, anyway, is what she later told police. The woman who gave birth insisted she had no arrangement to surrender her infant to Ale.
A Child of My Own screens Friday at the Doc10 festival in Chicago and on Sunday at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It recently screened at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival
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