After more than five years of fertility efforts, artist and reproductive rights journalist Abbey Crain and her partner Colby Leopard confront a challenge for parents-to-be across Alabama: embryos indefinitely on ice. With an unclear future, Abbey refutes hopelessness and envisions equity. As the film follows Abbey’s journalism and personal experience, it recruits a chorus of voices exploring uniquely specific and broad ramifications of the laws. SHOW ME THE LINE visualizes Alabamians’ experience of existential limbo and examines the context which cleared the way for it. The film shines a light on the larger political background of this ruling, addressing the science and history of IVF, while also posing essential questions around the themes of bodily autonomy, women’s rights and reproductive healthcare, social justice, spirituality, and the American dream.

 

Director | Kelsey Ianuzzi

Producers | Stacey Davis, Bo McGuire