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Now Streaming on Indies Showcase: Daddy & Papa
August 30, 2011Exploring the growing phenomenon of gay fatherhood through the stories of four families, Daddy & Papa looks at gay fathers who face both the routine and revolutionary challenges of becoming parents. Watch the Emmy Award-nominated documentary streaming free until Sept. 1st on ITVS's Indies Showcase.Daddy & Papa explores the personal,…
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Adoption Stories Continue on P.O.V.
September 13, 2010P.O.V. continues its focus on adoption stories this month with In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee, Tuesday night (check local listings). In the 1960s, the Sun Duck Orphanage in South Korea switched the identities of two orphans when an American family adopted one of them. Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem goes on a quest to search for her “double” — a girl named Cha Jung…
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Adoption Stories Front and Center on P.O.V.
September 7, 2010This month, P.O.V. presents two ITVS-funded documentaries about adoption including Off and Running and In The Matter of Cha Jung Hee. Off and Running airs tonight on P.O.V. (check local listings) and follows Avery, an African American teenager and the adopted daughter of two Jewish lesbian moms in Brooklyn. On a quest to meet her birth mother in Texas,…
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Tonight: In Celebration of “Fancy” Families
May 4, 2010"Sunshine is a refreshing and compelling self-portrait of an adopted woman driven to search for her pride and identity while reconnecting with her biological mother." -Wellsphere.com "Profoundly affecting. Even resistant guys will find themselves melting in the sunshine." -Austin American Stateman Has your life ever taken an unexpected…
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A Mother’s Day message from Sunshine’s Karen Skloss
May 3, 2010Karen Skloss, producer/director of Sunshine(premiering May 4 at 10 PM on Independent Lens on PBS, check local listings), shares the process that brought her to find her biological mother and to carry her pregnancy to term, as well as the social stigmas that subtly color our view of single parenthood.I suppose anyone who is adopted wonders about their…