How to Have an American Baby

如何拥有一个美国宝宝

2023 | 1h 57m | English
Location：Little Roxie, 3125 16th Street, San Francisco
Time：12:30 PM, Saturday, April 12, 2025

Link: https://roxie.com/film/how-to-have-an-american-baby/

本片是中文配音，配有英文字幕

本片为 Bay Visions 系列活动之一，由 AmDoc/POV 与湾区文化沙龙联合呈现
Part of Bay Visions and co-presented by AmDoc/POV and Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon

观影结束后，将举行导演 Leslie Tai 与主持人 Valerie Soe 的问答环节
Q&A after the film with director Leslie Tai and moderator Valerie Soe

从北京到洛杉矶，纪录片《如何拥有一个美国宝宝》追踪了地下“生育旅游”产业的兴起，带领观众走进这个蓬勃发展的灰色经济——它服务于前往美国生子的中国游客，以便让新生儿获得美国国籍。

影片通过多条细腻交织的叙事线索，带我们认识准妈妈们、孕妇酒店的经营者及准经营者、当地的医生与政府官员、中国的生育旅游中介，以及为这一产业提供支持的保姆、厨师和司机。在卧室、产房与私人家庭会议的场景中，一个隐藏的全球经济网络逐渐浮出水面，展现了普通人在其中所经历的憧憬与焦虑、财富与悲剧。

Tracing the underground birth tourism industry from Beijing to Los Angeles, HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY is a feature-length creative documentary that takes us behind the closed doors of the booming shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists who travel to the U.S. to give birth—in order to obtain U.S. citizenship for their babies.

Told through a series of intimately observed, interwoven storylines, we meet expectant mothers, maternity hotel operators and operator wannabes, local doctors and civic officials, birth tourism agents in China, and the nannies, cooks, and chauffeurs that fuel this industry. Inside bedrooms, delivery rooms, and private family meetings, the story of a hidden global economy emerges – depicting the aspirations and anxieties, fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in the web of its influence.