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The 26 minute television program, which aired on KTXT-TV (PBS) in late 2003 and early 2004, highlights the issues surrounding international adoption. Through on-camera interviews and video shot on location in West Texas and in China, the program explores culture, language, race and identity. The video features studio and field interviews with Texas Tech University child development professionals, local adoptive parents and their children. The program has been shown in university child development classes and is appropriate for adult educational settings.

Excellent, short, clear video produced for elementary school teachers. Children and parents tell teachers about 1) difficult class assignments, 2) forming a partnership with adoptive parents and 3) words and questions that hurt. Comes with handbook of additional resources and a floppy disc for printing handouts.

The number of Chinese-born children adopted by American families has grown considerably in the last decade. Each adoption is a unique story of parents and children as their fates intertwine. Each adoption is also a blessing that adorns the family, the community, and the two distant cultures. Love without Boundaries paints a colorful portrait of the unique stories of six families that have adopted from China. It also tells of the bond that is gradually being stitched between China and the United States.

Unlocking the Heart of Adoption chronicles the filmmaker’s journey as a birthmother interwoven with diverse personal stories of adoptees, birthparents and adoptive parents in both same race and transracial adoptions. These stories span 70 years, from ALICE, a birthmother whose child was adopted out without her consent in 1922; to RON, an adoptee who uncovered the truth after his parents died when he was 36; to PHYLLIS, a birthmother and ALISON, an adoptive mother in an open adoption with twin boys born in 1991. The film includes interviews with three mixed-race transracially adopted people: DEBBIE, a Japanese American woman; PAUL, a Filipino American man and MARTIN, an African American man with HAL, his Caucasian adoptive father.

Their stories provide a window into the lifelong process of adoption following the path of relinquishment, adoption, growing up adopted, raising an adopted child, years of silence and shame, and searching for answers to unasked questions. In the process, they explain what the universal issues of "identity" "loss" and "needing to know the truth" mean to them. Unlocking the Heart of Adoption gives the viewer a powerful way to understand what ‘adoption as a lifelong process’ means today.

Created by a team led by Dr. Changfu Chang of Millersville University, Pennsylvania, tells a touching story of a woman who is resolved to reunite with her daughter. It is a tale of love, choice, courage, and human dignity.

A group of FCC parents take you inside six orphanages in Hubei Province: Wuhan, Huangshi, Huanggang, Yichang, Jingzhou and Jingmen, and a visit to the flood plain of 1998. The video provides a rare glimpse of orphanage life for babies and older children at a time when few, if any, American professional photographers were allowed into the orphanages. The video shows the care provided by orphanage staff and out how American families are improving the lives of children still in the orphanages.

FCC parents have organized annual trips of U.S. medical teams that provide plastic surgery for children in orphanages. The U.S. team works closely with a Chinese team, assisting each other during surgery and learning from each other. This video shows a mission to the Harbin in the north of China.

An adoptive mother has produced a moving film about the experiences of six families as those families go through the adoption process here and in China, including some extraordinary footage shot in China. The filmmaker shows a range of adoptive families and children.

 Changes in the lives of four generations of Chinese women.  No women in any country have seen their lives change so radically as have Chinese women. "Women are 'half the sky,'" declared Mao Zedong, "and they are absolutely the equal of men."  Equal they may have been, but by regimentation, to the point of the virtual abolition of womanhood and femininity. Today economic reforms have given young women a degree of independence unknown to any previous generation. For the first time they are conscious and outspoken about their role and position in society, and they make their demands known.  This film explores these changes within the lives of four generations of women in the Jiang family over the last 50 years in China, from the grandmother who was bought by the Jiang family at age 14 to be grandfather's second wife, to her 24-year-old great-granddaughter who works as a sales assistant at the Pierre Cardin boutique in Beijing. Built around a series of interviews, images of daily life, special family occasions and archival film, HALF THE SKY focuses on the women's individual experiences of marriage, children, work, love, and self-esteem.