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In the last decade, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. Now, there are over 90,000 Chinese children being raised by American families. Eight-year old Fang Sui Yong, aka Faith Sadowksy, is just one of them. After being abandoned at 2, sent to a city orphanage for two years, and then taken in by a loving Chinese foster family, Faith's life is suddenly upended when she is adopted by Donna and Jeff Sadowsky, a Jewish family in Long Island, New York. Wo Ai Ni Mommy explores, for the first time, what it feels like to be adopted from the child’s perspective. This intimate and honest story is told in real-time by Faith as she tearfully parts ways with her birth culture, language and foster family—the only family she’s really ever known. Wo Ai Ni Mommy documents her struggle to adapt to her new life in America and offers a rare glimpse into a personal transformation that neither she, her American mother, nor the filmmaker could have ever imagined.
Wo Ai Ni Mommy is mandatory viewing... filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal laid bare the rocky places and complexities that lie between here and there, and without an honest acceptance of those shoals, we can't cross them.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Vivid personalities and a sharp eye for telling detail make this well-packaged docu an ingratiating winner.
Cynthia Fuchs, Pop Matters
Wang-Breal's fascinating film is alternately poignant and distressing, following Sui Young’s difficult transition from one life to another, one world to another.
Janos Gerben, San Francisco Examiner
...reminiscent of Sofia Coppola’s "Lost in Translation," except that much is found in "Wo ai ni Mommy" — instead of being lost.
Washington Post
...absorbing record of the family's first year and a half together, with all its adjustments and attachments.
Received a 2011 Emmy® nomination
AFI/ Silverdocs Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize Winner
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize Winner
Asian American International Film Festival, Best Emerging Director Winner
Cine Special Jury Award
Stephanie Wang-Breal Stephanie Wang-Breal is an award-winning independent filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. Stephanie's most recent film, "Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)" has been awarded the Grand Jury's Best Documentary Award at the AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The film had its national broadcast premiere on PBS's award-winning documentary series, P.O.V.
Stephanie is currently developing two new projects, one narrative and one documentary feature both dealing with the Chinese-American experience. Stephanie’s previous work includes, “From Infirmity to Firmness,” a short independent documentary that explores how Iyengar Yoga has helped four individuals live with HIV; as well as a short artistic video profile that highlights how an after-school arts program has changed the lives of two South African children growing up in the townships. Stephanie has also freelance produced stories for various media outlets including, CNN, UNICEF, MTV, Discovery and the Biography Channel.
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