The Handmaid's Tale director says too many childbirth scenes are "sanitized" because they are filmed by men

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That's why director Daina Reid says more women should be behind the lens. “We can portray an experience like that in a much more visceral, experiential way, as opposed to an idea of what it would be,” she says. “I think it’s important to have a visceral, realized version of all female experiences, because I think often we do not get that... Women are starved of watching the world through their own lens, across the board.”