True North’s first film for Channel 4 is broadcast on 2nd January 2008.
Directed by Victoria Silver, and Executive Produced for True North by Jess Fowle, My Fake Baby explores the lives of women who spend hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of pounds on life-like baby dolls. Known as "reborns" some of the dolls have beating hearts, others have tiny veins and even milk spots. Doll designer Jaime - a mother of four - now fulfils the dreams of other women by engineering babies to their specifications in her front room.
Adoptive "mums" include women with grown-up children, grandmothers living away from their grandchildren and women who have left it too late to have their own babies. My Fake Baby delves into an extraordinary pursuit which, although bizarre to some, brings great rewards to the women involved.
The film was commissioned by Channel 4 Commissioning Editor Factual Entertainment, Dominique Walker.