Korean Adoptees of Hawai`i are pleased to host:The Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival
October 10-13, 2008 Honolulu, Hawai`iPlease visit www.kahawaii.org/mini08 for more information and film submission guidelines.Please pass this along!Mahalo,
Amanda
Kino Kwon, a graduate from Grittith University, Queensland and independent indi filmmaker is seeking information and experiences from Korean adoptees in the Sydney area.
Kino has a personal connection with adoption. His biological sister was adopted to a Danish family and he met her last year for the first time in 20 years. A short clip about their reunion can be seen on youtube.
Kino can be contacted at Kinomans(at)hotmail(dot)com
Foster care better for I.Q. than orphanage, study finds
Thursday, December 20, 2007
The results of U.S. research in Romania, being published on Friday in the journal Science, found that toddlers placed in foster families developed significantly higher I.Q.’s by age 4, on average, than peers who spent those years in an orphanage.
Hello,
We are making a film called RESILIENCE, a documentary about Korean birth mothers and international adoption. We hope this film will create greater awareness and deeper understanding about a side of adoption that has been rarely looked.
An independent film project this size is costly, and we still have a long way to go in raising the necessary funds to finish the film. We are currently looking for personal donations and financial sponsors to help fund the film’s completion. The funds raised will be used for film production costs, including costs for equipment and rentals, editing, labor and translations. We have been actively raising funds for the film but have yet to raise enough.
We need your help in bringing this important film to completion. Please consider making a donation to this significant project and help us make these women’s stories heard, and please pass on this info. For more info about the project, please view the attached press kit.
Thank you very much,
Tammy Chu
Director/ Co-Producer, RESILIENCE
www.resiliencefilm.com
December 23, 2007
Where Boys Were Kings, a Shift Toward Baby Girls
By CHOE SANG-HUN
SEOUL, South Korea � When Park He-ran was a young mother, other women
would approach her to ask what her secret was. She had given birth to
three boys in a row at a time when South Korean women considered it
their paramount duty to bear a son.
Deborra-lee’ s adoption victory
Article from: The Associated Press
By Ellen Connolly
December 23, 2007 12:00am
ACTOR Deborra-lee Furness and The Sunday Telegraph have won
a major victory in a campaign to overhaul Australia’s
anti-adoption culture.
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Come to Las Vegas January 13 - 16, 2008 for some great fun, sun and entertainment…you might even learn a thing or two!� For a small registration fee of only $60, you will get some great workshops, 3 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners, and be able to see some old friends, and make some new ones, too!� This is primarily for adoptees, but friends and family are invited, too!
Emily Saunders finds the missing piece of her puzzle
http://www.startrib une.com/local/ 12916351. html
For five minutes, Emily Saunders was alone.
Then her twin sister was born.
Their mother, a poor South Korean woman who was not expecting twins
and gave birth out of wedlock, made a fateful decision. She would give
one girl up. That was Emily, who was adopted when she was 4 months old
by Jackie and Eric Saunders of Wyoming, Minn.
Hello!
My name is Nari Baker and I am putting out a request for interviews
of adoptees who have lived in Korea for at least one year. I have
been living in Seoul since July 2007 on a U.S. Fulbright grant for
the purpose of completing several oral history projects. Below I
describe all three projects that I am working on. I am open to
volunteers picking and choosing any combination of the three
projects they would be interested in contributing to.