From: trvene@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [tucsonstage] Tucson film screening with director Q&A
In honor of National Adoption Month,
Tucson Chinese Cultural Center Red Thread Families (co-sponsored by UA Hanson Film Institute)
is pleased to present the screening of 3 independent Chinese adoption films,
with special presentation and Q&A by filmmaker, Dr. Changfu Chang.
Dr. Chang is the writer/director/producer of Sofia 's Journey and Daughters' Return,
as well as co-director for The Invisible Red Thread.
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Location: Tucson Chinese Cultural Center 1288 W. River Rd.
Cost: TCCC Members $10, Non-Members $20
RSVP: 292-6900
www.tucsonchinese.org
4:30 p.m. The Invisible Red Thread (Approx. Running Time: 50 minutes) 15 year old Vivian Lum returns to her birth land to discover the life she might have had if she'd not been internationally adopted.
6 p.m. Sofia's Journey (Approx. Running Time: 45 minutes) Searching for Birth Parents (Series 1)
She is a lead singer of her school choir and an accomplished dancer. She often wonders where her talent comes from. Are her singing and dancing inherited traits? Her lack of knowledge of her birth parents has left her with an emotional void, a "hole in her heart."
This film documents the gripping journey of a 14-year old girl as she searches for her birth parents in China. Ultimately, the quest becomes the search for her past, identity, and place in complex relationships entwined with love and abandonment. Standing at the very spot where she was allegedly found 14 years ago, Sofia is anxious for answers to the unsettled questions: Will the myth of her birth be solved, will her birth parents come forward to reclaim her as their daughter, and, will the journey bring a closure to a chapter in her life?
Sofia's Journey is not just a suspense-filled, emotion-laden story but also an exploration of minds, choices, and cultural differences.
7:15 p.m. Daughters' Return (Approx. Running Time: 50 minutes) Searching for Birth Parents (Series 2)
Since the early 1990s, over 100,000 Chinese children, mostly girls, have been adopted by families in the West. Other than a few lines about their finding places, these children know nothing about their biological families. For many adoptees who are coming of age, the lack of information on their birth parents creates a sense of disappointment and frustration.
This film documents the unique experiences of two girls—Eline from the Netherlands and Ricki from the United States—who go to China to meet their birth parents and reconnect with their roots. For the Chinese children adopted internationally, their experiences remain extremely unusual. How do the adoptees find their birth parents? How do they bond with their birth families? How do they negotiate their identities based on new narratives of their past? What do these experiences mean to the adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents?
Daughter's Return is a rollercoaster, packed with unexpected turns of events, outpourings of emotion, and a timely engagement of critical issues concerning adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents.
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