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Vivian and Shuming : Four Years After The Documentary’s Release
After making the film The Invisible Red Thread, it was clear that Vivian and Shuming were both bright and kind girls, with great potential in many ways. Throughout the documentary, we grew to knew our characters and now regularly keep … Continue reading
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Tagged adoption, Canada, China, Documentary, journey, shuming, The Invisible Red Thread, Toronto, update, Vivian, where are they now
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Roots and Branches
A recent article on News China points to the rarity of Chinese adoptees connecting with their birthparents later in life. Friend and Invisible Red Thread collaborator, Changfu Chang is quoted in the article. “Locating birth families in China is extremely … Continue reading
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Tagged adoptee, adoption, biological, changfu chang. news china, China, identity, international, Invisible Red Thread, journey, parents, politics, Ricki's promise, Vivian
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SCREENING IN KANSAS: CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES ON AUGUST 3RD
This Sunday there will be a special screening of The Invisible Red Thread at The Center for East Asian Studies at Kansas University at the Lawrence Arts Center. It will be followed by a panel discussion, with three specials guests: … Continue reading
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Tagged adoptee, adoption, audience, center for east asian culture, China, discussion, Documentary, invissible, kansas, panel, Red, screening, shumin, Special Screening, theatre, Thread, Toronto, Vivian
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The Changing Worlds of Vivian and Shumin
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 … Continue reading
Editing Room Chaos To Order!
A peek inside the documentary editing process What goes on behind the scenes when you need to take 40 hours of footage and condense it into a coherent one hour documentary? The first step: organizing! Editor Catherine Legault makes cards … Continue reading
Marie-Claire China Magazine follows Vivian’s journey
Marie-Claire magazine (China) sent a photographer to follow Vivian and her father Hubert as they went on their quest back to Vivian’s birth land. He captured her meeting with Shumin Zhu, a girl who was abandoned much like Vivian was, … Continue reading
Our editor Catherine
With post-production on our latest doc The Invisible Red Thread now in full swing, we asked our editor Catherine Legault to give us some insider info. Here what she had to say about her process and the job: What were … Continue reading
Vivian and Shumin: Two months later
How does being filmed impact documentary participants? As filmmakers, we always wonder what the impact will be for the people who agree to be part of our documentary films. The incredible variety of reality TV shows make it seem almost … Continue reading
IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO EDIT A MOVIE
JUST WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS OF THE EDITING SUITE? Okay, maybe it doesn’t need a whole village, but it does take a team of some size to gather 40+ hours of filmed, unedited footage and shape it … Continue reading
Tagged adoption, China, Maureen Marovitch, Picture This, Vivian
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When a Hospital Emergency Unexpectedly Becomes Part of The Documentary…
Flash back to Saturday July 28th: It’s one day before Eve, Hubert and Vivian -the Canadian family we’re following on their odyssey to China – is set to board the plane to Beijing. The Canadian crew is ready to film … Continue reading
Tagged airport, Changfu Chang, China, departure, emergency, Eve, Family, hospital, Hubert, Jiujiang, Maureen Marovitch, Toronto, Trip, Vivian
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The Invisible Red Thread is made possible with 100% funding from the OMNI Television Independent Producers Initiative. The $32.5 million fund is a seven-year commitment created and made available for the independent production of third-language ethnocultural programming. The fund is not only dedicated to helping Canadian independent producers tell their stories in their language of comfort, but also to make sure that these stories are accessible to other ethnocultural communities through re-versioning in different languages. This is the industry’s first, and only, major source of funding for the independent production of non-official language programming. More details on the fund are at OMNI Television’s website 
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