Hannah Olson's 2020 documentary Baby God follows the adult children of a Las Vegas fertility doctor as consumer DNA testing exposes a secret he kept for decades.
What is Baby God about?
For much of the twentieth century, Dr. Quincy Fortier ran a fertility practice in Las Vegas and helped hundreds of couples who could not conceive. Long after those patients had raised their families, home DNA kits and online genealogy tools began linking strangers across the United States to the same biological father. The connections pointed back to Fortier himself: during treatment he had used his own sperm, and the mothers were never told. Baby God spends its 78 minutes with the people who made that discovery as adults. Some want to understand why he did it. Others are trying to work out what the news means for their sense of identity, for the half-siblings they never knew they had, and for the parents who raised them.
About the cast
There is no cast in the conventional sense. Director Hannah Olson builds the film from interviews with the people directly affected by the case, supported by archival material. She is the only credited name in the catalogue entry, and the result is a documentary account of what happened rather than a dramatisation with actors.
Context & significance
Baby God is a United States production from 2020, listed under crime and documentary. It belongs to a wave of non-fiction work that emerged once home DNA testing became commonplace and began surfacing family secrets that had been assumed buried for good. Fertility fraud by physicians, meaning doctors substituting their own sperm without a patient's consent, became a recognised subject of reporting and of legal reform in several US states during the same period, and this film is one of the clearest documentary records of a single such case. At a compact 78 minutes, it stays focused on the Las Vegas story and the families involved rather than widening into a survey of the issue.
Watching Baby God on Ktime
Baby God streams on K-Time for members. Reading this page is free, but playback requires signing in with a K-Time account. The film is presented in its original English audio; the catalogue does not list a Persian dub or Persian subtitles for this title. K-Time's interface is available in Farsi, so Persian-speaking viewers can browse, search and manage their watchlist in their own language even when a film itself is in English.