Families with Children from China of Greater NY - Long Island Chapter is proud to present our first film series Long Wait for Home and Peer in the Distance The Suffolk Community College, Grant Campus in Brentwood Van Nostrand Theatre in the Sagtikos Art and Science Center 100-186 Crooked Hill Rd, Brentwood, NY 11717 Sign in will begin at 2:00 pm, the first film begins promptly at 2:30pm. Light refreshments will be served Please Note: This is an adults only event. $10 per person for current FCCNY members $15 per person if not a current member of FCCNY Pay at-the-door is $20 per person. Grandparents, close friends and friends are welcome to attend as well. You are encouraged to register your guests at the member price. For the FCCNY member price you must have a current 2008 FCCNY membership and login to the website www.fccny.org or click here. Click on Register for FCC Events on the left side of the home page. This leads you to a login page. Login here for member pricing or hit IGNORE. On the next page pick FCCLI Film Series from the dropdown menu and register. Problems registering? Contact Kathy at Urbina9@aol.com or 718.852.8979 LONG WAIT FOR HOME (running time 50 minutes) International adoption has increasingly become a national phenomenon in the United States. Despite a surge in media coverage of adoptions from China, there are many unanswered questions: Who are the birth parents and under what circumstances do they decide to give away their babies? How do children end up in orphanages and what kinds of lives do they live there? Moreover, with so many “foreigners” going to China to pick up these Chinese babies, what do the average Chinese people feel and think about Americans and international adoption? To answer these questions, Dr. Changfu Chang presents this widely anticipated documentary, a work of five dedicated years, Long Wait For Home. For the first time, we sit face to face with birth parents who share with us the hard decisions they have made and the emotional toll they have suffered; we go to orphanages and take an intimate look at the living conditions of children usually inaccessible to film crews; we also converse with a wide range of ordinary Chinese citizens and scholars on the subject of international adoption. Immediately following the screening of Long Wait For Home will be a discussion with filmmaker, Dr. Changfu Chang. Afterwards, we will take a quick break and then screen Dr. Chang's second film. PEER IN THE DISTANCE (running time 30 minutes) Wan Wan lives in the city. As the only child of the family, she seems to have everything: a good school, extra-curricular activities, and a mother who stays home just to take care of her. Xing Ping lives in the countryside. She seems to have nothing: disheartening obstacles unimaginable for her age; she must walk several hours through the mountains to her school. On her own, she raises ducklings to pay for her tuition and she worries about whether she can continue her basic 9-year education. Wan Wan and Xing Ping live in two different worlds. But in certain ways, their lives are similar: both girls chase their childhood dreams in the shadow of social realities and expectations. Shot in two locations, the bustling city and the serene countryside, with stunning photography and inspiring music, Peer in the Distance takes you to the worlds of two Chinese families, and to the heart of today’s China. Questions? Contact Kristen Hayes at kristenh@fccli.org or 631-608-8546 DIRECTIONS: The Grant Campus, in Brentwood, NY. Take the Long Island Expressway to Exit 53. Follow signs to Wicks Road. Go south ½ mile on Wicks Road to campus entrance on right-hand side. Parking is available in Field Two. For further directions visit http://www3.sunysuffolk.edu/maps/mapli.asp For a map of the campus visit http://www3.sunysuffolk.edu/About/MapGrantStandard/index.asp. |
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