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Jessica Earnshaw in person
Columbus Premiere
$8 members$12 general public$9 adults 55 and over$6 students
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A raw, devastating, and timely Ohio story, Baby Doe takes an unusually nuanced and sensitive approach to a tragic tale.
Thirty years ago, Gail Ritchey, a young woman living in a conservative Christian community in rural northeast Ohio, gave birth alone and left her newborn child in the woods. Now a mother of three, her quiet suburban life is shattered when DNA evidence links her to what the media coined “Geauga’s Child,” and she is arrested for murder despite saying the baby was stillborn. Facing a life sentence, Ritchey leans on her family for support as she confronts the weight of societal and religious pressures. Compassionately directed by Jessica Earnshaw (Jacinta), Baby Doe cuts through the headlines to uncover the human complexity of Ritchey’s case, examining the intersection of women’s health, justice, and the outside forces that continue to shape stories like hers. (100 mins., DCP)
Baby Doe premiered at the 2025 South by Southwest Film Festival and won the Cleveland International Film Festival’s Global Health Award.
Join us for a reception at 6 PM in the lower lobby as we meet and greet with this year's visiting Unorthodocs filmmakers.
See the complete Unorthodocs 2025 lineup.
IMAGE CAPTIONBaby Doe, courtesy of Visit Films.
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Rohauer Collection Foundation
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
The Columbus Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Axium Packaging
Nationwide Foundation
Michael and Anita Goldberg
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease, LLP
Joyce Shenk
Rebecca Perry and Ben Towle
Lachelle Thigpen
Past Film/Video
Baby Doe
