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Relinquishment, Reunion, and Family Truths - A conversation inspired by Vivien's Wild Ride - On February 26th, join birth/first mother Vivien Hillgrove (Director: Vivien’s Wild Ride), her daughter Kathleen Toschi, Dr. Sara Docan-Morgan (author, In Reunion), and Moderator Astrid Castro of Adoption Mosaic in a conversation about relinquishment during the "Baby Scoop Era" of U.S. adoptions (1945-1973), and the complexities of adoption reunions decades later. Register here!
Vis/Ability - Join us on February 19th at 4pm PT for a conversation with Vivien Hillgrove (Director: Vivien’s Wild Ride), Sheridan O'Donnell (Director: Rising Phoenix: A New Revolution), James LeBrecht (Co-Director with Nicole Newnham: Crip Camp), and Eric M. Ivey (Editor: Vivien’s Wild Ride) about film directing with a visual disability, working with a mixed-ability film-team, and the importance of care-work before, during, and after the film is made. Register here.
During and after the Korean War, thousands of mixed-race children were abandoned by their American GI fathers, stigmatized by Korean society, and sent to be adopted by couples in the West. Today many are searching for their original families, initiating unexpected discoveries about self, family, race, and culture. Relative Strangers follows their stories, uncovering the racial and social inequalities of the world’s largest international adoption program, and its impact on individuals and societies.
In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and recover the personal histories that were lost when they were adopted. Along the way there are discoveries and dead ends, as well as mysteries that will never be unraveled.
In Crossings, a group of international women peacemakers, including renowned activists Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn, sets out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.