A contest!

Posted on June 19, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

Do you have a blog? Have you seen The Invisible Red Thread or are you very interested in watching it? Write a short film review or write about why you want to see it. You have until midnight Monday, June 25  to post your entry on your blog. The person that gets the most comments on their blog page and/or Likes or Shares on Facebook and Twitter will win a DVD and will be featured on our Invisible Red Thread blog the week of July 1st.  To enter, just comment on this post with the link to your posting once you have it up ( or email this address ).

We can’t wait to read your posts!

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Your Feedback About the Film!

Posted on June 19, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

This past weekend’s TV premiere of The Invisible Red Thread was a success! And that is all thanks to viewers like you who helped spread the news.

We received some amazing feedback and are grateful we touched so many viewers like:

My husband and I watched it last night, very moving.  Brought back many memories of our time in Jiangxi.
I found it very interesting to see the contrasting lives between the two families.  Really, really enjoyed this film.  Hope the girls are able to keep in contact over the years.

Dayna ( dx2) on China Adopt Talk

Congratulations! It was a great. Thought provoking. I really like the interview with Shumin’s birth parents. We rarely if never hear from BP and it was very interesting to hear their prospective.

Doris Gutenkunst on Facebook

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The Invisible Red Thread on RCI – interview with director Maureen Marovitch

Posted on June 15, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Radio Canada International (RCI)’s The Link, an hour-long daily radio show aimed at connecting people to Canada and Canada to the world, replayed an interview with the film’s creator about The Invisible Red Thread.

Writer/ Co-Producer/ Director Maureen Marovitch talked to The Link host Marc Montgomery about where the idea came from and why Vivian Lum, the Canadian adoptee, accepted to be in the film.

“Vivian did have a lot of questions ever since she’d been small. As many children who’ve been adopted, there’s a lot of curiosity about her roots,” said Marovitch. “What might her life have been like if she hadn’t been adopted?”

Shuming Zhu, the Chinese adoptee was less comfortable with her adoption but came out of the filming process feeling better about her roots and personal story.

“Shuming had been bullied about being adopted. She had felt inferior. When she saw that there was no stigma for Vivian, she looked at her adoption in a new perspective.”

The film was a great journey for both “ adoptee sisters”, their families and the crew.

Share their experience and feel the emotion on Sunday at 9 on Omni!

Not in Canada? Order your DVDs here 

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A Peek Into The World Of Shuming And Vivian

Posted on June 13, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

This gallery contains 10 photos.

A few days before the premiere broadcast of The Invisible Red Thread on Omni TV, check out some never-before seen photos taken during the shoot.

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Broadcast Premiere This Weekend!

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Picture This Productions

Just in time for Father’s Day, The Invisible Red Thread documentary airs on Canadian television this Sunday.  The story of one teen adoptee’s journey back to her birthplace with her adopted father, to compare lives with another teen adopted within China, will premiere on OMNI TV on June 17, at 9:00 PM, and 10:00 PM in BC. Here are the details of how you can see it in Canada, and abroad:

Watching in Canada?

Prefer to see the version with Mandarin subtitles? 

Don’t get OMNI, or you’re in the US, UK or beyond?

Contact us to order a DVD or to arrange a screening in your city!

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The Changing Worlds of Vivian and Shumin

Posted on June 5, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

Just two weeks before our TV broadcast premiere (more details next posting!) the two girls featured in our international adoption documentary continue to grow and mature on opposite sides of the planet. Here’s an update on each of them, and how being in the documentary impacted their lives:

Our recent screening in Toronto gave us a chance to reconnect with Vivian Lum, now 17. When we filmed with her in the summer of 2010, she was just 15. Now finishing grade 11, she’s starting to think about university and her future. “Being in the film and going to China, meeting Shumin- it all helped answer so many questions for me. It sounds funny, but I think less about all that adoption stuff now. It’s like I can put that aside and move on with my life.”

On the other side of the world, Shumin Zhu, now turning 16 and completing grade 9, has grown more confident and outgoing. Her recent letter to Vivian in May mentioned all the progress she made since the shooting of the Invisible Red Thread. “ I am really very upbeat now and study very hard,” she wrote. “Being adopted no longer bothers me.”  Her favourite subject is English – she is determined to be able to better communicate with Vivian someday. And the drawing talents we saw in the documentary continue to flourish- she plans to participate in a drawing competition.  When not away at school, she helps with many household chores and wrote that she tries to make her parents proud through her studies.

Three members of the filmmaking team will visit with Shumin and her family this summer, to show her the film as well as to present her parents with a cheque to help Shumin finish her high school education.

Good to hear from our two ‘adoptee sisters’!

To see the film in Canada:

June 17 at 9pm OMNI.2 TV, OMNI Television Alberta, OMNI TV BC

To see the film in Canada in Mandarin:

June 24 at 9 PM.  OMNI.2 in Mandarin on

Don’t get OMNI TV, or you’re in the US, UK or beyond?

Contact us to order a DVD or arrange a screening in your city!

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Sold Out Screening! Want The Doc in Your City?

Posted on May 29, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

This past weekend a sold-out crowd gathered at the S. Walter Stewart Library for a pre-broadcast screening of The Invisible Red Thread in Toronto.

The audience was largely composed of parents and children who have gone through the adoption process. The emotion and recognition of the story they saw onscreen was palpable. “So many people took copies of the film home to show their daughters and other family and friends”, said Maureen Marovitch, co-producer and co-director.

FCC President Johan Vink says he’s a great advocate of the film, and is planning to contact other FCCs in the US to spread the word.  Another audience member noted “Really, it’s a film to see for anyone connected to or touched by adoption.”

The film’s main participant, Vivian Lum, along with her parents Hubert Lum and Eve Leyerle and co-producer/ writer Maureen Marovitch answered a half hour’s worth of thought-provoking questions from the audience post-screening. They also gave an update on the situation of the film’s other main subject, Shuming Zhu, a girl adopted within China.

The film will be broadcast on OMNI TV June 17th in English and June 24th in Mandarin in Ontario, BC and Alberta. If you can’t see it then, but would like to organize a screening at your festival, conference organization, school or library,  contact us ! The documentary is available for screenings across North America and beyond.

 

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Weekend Highlight: Know more about the FCC!

Posted on May 23, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

You might know there’s an upcoming sneak preview of The Invisible Red Thread this weekend at the S. Walter Stewart Library in Toronto before its Canadian television premiere on OMNI TV in June. Join Vivian Lum, the documentary’s main focus, and her family at this special screening hosted by the Families of Children from China (FCC). Filmmaker Maureen Marovitch and one of our cameramen, James Klopko, will also be in attendance!

If you don’t already know about the FCC, it’s a volunteer organization made up of families who adopted children from China, as well as families waiting for or considering adoption from China. With independent chapters all over the world, the FCC provides similar families with ways to connect with each other. They organize various activities: family picnics and pot-luck suppers, celebrations of Chinese festivals and holidays, meetings, playgroups and many more. And, for special occasions, a film screening!

Want to know more about the FCC? Read on at www.fwcc.org

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Toronto Sneak Peek : FCC Hosts a Special Afternoon Screening

Posted on May 14, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

FCC Toronto (Families with Children from China) is hosting a special sneak-preview screening of The Invisible Red Thread, three weeks before its Canadian broadcast premiere! This special screening taking place Sunday May 27, 2012 at 2 p.m. at the S. Walter Stewart Library in the east end of Toronto (Coxwell and Mortimer area, north of Danforth). Map below

After the film, there will be a  Q & A session with Vivian and her family, who will be attending the screening along with filmmaking team Maureen Marovitch and David Finch.

The Invisible Red Thread follows a 15 year old typical North American teenager but started life as an abandoned infant in Jiangxi Province in southern China. Adopted by a Canadian couple at the age of six months and raised in Toronto, Vivian returns to China’s southern Jiangxi Province as a teen where she meets Shumin Zhu, a 14 year old girl who similarly abandoned but adopted by a couple in rural China. Vivian and Shumin compare their lives and discover surprising similarities and differences, and explore the ties that still connect Vivian to China.

Due to limited space, attendance is by advance registration only.  You can pre-register on the FCC homepage at http://www.fcctoronto.org/

FCC Toronto: http://www.fcctoronto.org/

 

 

 

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Introducing Our Educational Distributor!

Posted on April 3, 2012 by maureenpicturethis

Schools, universities, institutions and organizations:  you can now buy the DVD or stream “The Invisible Red Thread” directly to your groups and classrooms. We are delighted to have signed on with McNabb Connolly as educational distributor for Canadian sales and rentals.

American and international schools and organizations, and individuals in Canada and beyond can still contact the filmmakers directly at docs@picturethis.ca to buy the DVD.

 

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