Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives

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Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives
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Directed bySara Lamm
Mary Wigmore
Produced bySara Lamm
Mary Wigmore
Kate Roughan
Zachary Mortensen
Starring Ina May Gaskin
Edited by Kate Amend
Music by Robin Pecknold
Production
company
Ghost Robot/Reckon So Productions
Release dates
  • June 16, 2012 (2012-06-16)(Los Angeles Film Festival) [1]
  • January 16, 2013 (2013-01-16)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives is a 2012 documentary film about midwife Ina May Gaskin of The Farm in Tennessee, directed by Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore.

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