This is where I get to go tomorrow morning. Let me know if you will be there too!
Event: Long Wait for Home with Dr. Changfu Chang
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2009 from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: University of Georgia-Gwinnett
2530 Sever Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30043
The FILM…International adoption has increasingly become a national phenomenon in the United States. Despite a surge in media coverage of adoptions from China, there are many unanswered questions: Who are the birth parents and under what circumstances do they decide to give away their babies? How do children end up in orphanages and what kinds of lives do they live there? Moreover, with so many “foreigners” going to China to pick up these Chinese babies, what do the average Chinese people feel and think about Americans and international adoption? To answer these questions, Dr. Changfu Chang presents this widely acclaimed documentary, a work of five dedicated years, Long Wait For Home. For the first time, we sit face to face with birth parents who share with us the hard decisions they have made and the emotional toll they have suffered; we go to orphanages and take an intimate look at the living conditions of children usually inaccessible to film crews; we converse with ordinary Chinese citizens and scholars on the subject of international adoption.
For more information click here: Long Wait for Home with Dr. Changfu Chang
2 comments:
Looking forward to hearing how the day went; those events are always inspiring and enlightening (sometimes tinged with despair).
M
I was there when he presented this in the DC area. It is something we all should watch.
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