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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has announced an August 13 debut for A Child of My Own (Un Hijo Propio), nan caller documentary from two-time Oscar nominee Maite Alberdi.
The movie examines nan unusual lawsuit of Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza, known arsenic Ale, a young female successful Mexico who felt truthful overmuch unit from her hubby and in-laws to person a babe that she faked her ain pregnancy. While sustaining nan ruse for months, Ale arranged pinch an expectant young mother who didn’t want her kid to return that woman’s newborn arsenic her own. That, anyway, is what she later told police. The female who gave commencement insisted she had nary statement to surrender her babe to Ale.
A Child of My Own screens Friday astatine nan Doc10 show successful Chicago and connected Sunday astatine nan San Francisco International Film Festival. It precocious screened astatine nan Buenos Aires International Film Festival successful Argentina and astatine Visions du Réel successful Nyon, Switzerland aft holding its world premiere successful February astatine nan Berlin Film Festival. In summation to streaming connected Netflix, nan documentary will beryllium released successful prime theaters successful nan U.S., UK and Mexico.
Alberdi (The Mole Agent, The Eternal Memory) filmed extended dramatizations for nan project, casting Ana Celeste Montalvo Peña arsenic Ale, and Armando Espitia arsenic Ale’s husband, Arturo (he was wholly taken successful by nan strategy and really thought his woman had carried a babe to term).
“It’s not fabrication for me; it’s much for illustration a recreation of her constituent of view,” Alberdi says of nan dramatized sequences. The filmmaker felt an impulse to return that imaginative attack successful portion because Mexican news media had portrayed Ale successful one-dimensional position – arsenic a babe thief. “It was truthful integrated a measurement to show this communicative because [previously] we were [seeing] only 1 imagination and 1 type astatine that point.”
“In this feature-length documentary, Maite Alberdi shows really a elemental dishonesty turns into a charade that proves difficult to support up complete months, successful nan eyes of her excited hubby and family,” notes a release. “This farce traps Alejandra successful an all-consuming simulation that pushes her past nan constituent of nary return, triggering a media ungraded and making it intolerable for her to prolong her lie.”
A Child of My Own continues Alberdi’s narration pinch Netflix. The streamer adapted her documentary The Mole Agent into nan bid A Man connected nan Inside, starring Ted Danson, which has been renewed for a 3rd season. The director’s 2024 fabrication task In Her Place besides is streaming connected Netflix.
At nan Berlin Film Festival, Alberdi told Deadline, “I person truthful galore bully experiences pinch Netflix, of course, starting pinch A Man connected nan Inside and I made my first fabrication film, In Her Place, pinch them.” Regarding A Child of My Own, she noted, “It’s a very large movie pinch a operation of large accumulation pinch actors and pinch a large crew, and pinch my measurement to make documentaries pinch a mini crew. So, it was an eager project, but very happy that we tin do it pinch Netflix.”
