"The Drop Box" Film

There are more than 150 million orphans worldwide. THE DROP BOX is the real-life account of one small group of Christ-followers, in one corner of the world, who have sacrificed everything in order to care for the orphans in their midst. This feature-length documentary from Pine Creek Entertainment and Arbella Studios, in association with Focus on the Family and Kindred Image, tells the story of South Korean Pastor Lee Jong-rak and his heroic efforts to embrace and protect his community's most vulnerable children.

 

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Voice of Love Campaign Brings Hope to South Korean Orphans

Hope for Orphans has teamed up with Onnuri English Ministry and the Mission to Promote Adoption in Korea (MPAK) to form Voice of Love, a campaign whose purpose is to be a voice for orphaned children in South Korea. There are currently 20,000 children in South Korea who are in need of adoptive families. In spite of this number, there is a quota in place that has drastically limited the number of children that can be adopted internationally. Because of this, and because domestic adoption in South Korea is not prevalent, so many children continue to wait with little hope of ever finding their forever families. If you want to learn more about how you can be a voice for these children, please click here.

PBS Adoption Series

PBS POV is launching a national public awareness campaign to examine issues facing adoptees and families who choose to adopt. The following documentaries will air starting tonight and into September. Check your local listings for times. You can also view the documentaries on line at http://www.pbs.org/pov/woainimommy/, http://www.pbs.org/pov/offandrunning/ , and
http://www.pbs.org/pov/chajunghee/.

August 31, 2010 "Wo Ai Ni Mommy"

What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country, family and culture? Stephanie Wang-Breal’s Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy is the story of Fang Sui Yong, an 8-year-old orphan, and the Sadowskys, the Long Island Jewish family that travels to China to adopt her. Sui Yong is one of 70,000 Chinese children now being raised in the United States. Through her eyes, we witness her struggle with a new identity as she transforms from a timid child into someone that no one — neither her new family nor she — could have imagined. A co-production of American Documentary/POV and the Diverse Voices Project, presented in association with the Center for Asian American Media, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (90 minutes)

September 7, 2010 "Off and Running"
Off and Running tells the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with a bright future. She is the adopted African-American child of white Jewish lesbians. Her older brother is black and Puerto Rican and her younger brother is Korean. Though it may not look typical, Avery’s household is like most American homes — until Avery writes to her birth mother and the response throws her into crisis. She struggles over her “true” identity, the circumstances of her adoption and her estrangement from black culture. Just when it seems as if her life is unraveling, Avery decides to pick up the pieces and make sense of her identity, with inspiring results. A co-production of ITVS in association with the National Black Programming Consortium and American Documentary/POV and the Diverse Voices Project, with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

September 14th, 2010 "In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee"
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee is the search to find the answers, as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem (First Person Plural, POV 2000) returns to her native Korea to find her “double,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. A co-production of ITVS in association with the Center for Asian American Media and American Documentary/POV.