Chicken & Egg Pictures, the film fund that supports documentaries directed by women, has announced the grantees from its 2013 open call. Amongst the new grantees are films from Lucy Walker ("The Crash Reel"), Kim Longinotto ("Pink Saris") and Dawn Porter ("Gideon's Army"). The organization also gave continuing funding to previous grantees, including the new film "Tough Love," from Stephanie Wang-Breal ("Wo Ai Ni Mommy"). In the announcement's press release, Chicken & Egg's new Executive Director Jenni Wolfson said, “Chicken & Egg Pictures is at a pivotal moment in its eight year history. There is a growing recognition, domestically and internationally, that women non-fiction filmmakers have a critical role to play turning the struggles of our time into resonant, urgent and provocative stories that will inspire critical discussion, civic engagement and social change. I have no doubt, that the artists we are supporting in this round will do just...
- 11/25/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
While introducing Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You Mommy) at last night’s Stranger Than Fiction, programmer Thom Powers thanked the Sadowsky family for allowing director Stephanie Wang-Breal to document their experiences adopting an eight-year-old girl from China, pointing out that “it’s not an easy thing to let a camera into your life.”
Startlingly intimate, Wo Ai Ni Mommy follows the Sadowsky family as they struggle to incorporate their new daughter, who speaks no English, into their family. When the girl, Faith, demands to know why her parents would even want a Chinese daughter, her parents are shocked that multiculturalism is a concept that just doesn’t translate.
As a Chinese speaker, Wang-Breal ends up becoming Faith’s translator and ally, and through this friendship, she’s able to film some incredibly visceral images of childhood loneliness. It’s a cliché of verite filmmaking, but in this case...
Startlingly intimate, Wo Ai Ni Mommy follows the Sadowsky family as they struggle to incorporate their new daughter, who speaks no English, into their family. When the girl, Faith, demands to know why her parents would even want a Chinese daughter, her parents are shocked that multiculturalism is a concept that just doesn’t translate.
As a Chinese speaker, Wang-Breal ends up becoming Faith’s translator and ally, and through this friendship, she’s able to film some incredibly visceral images of childhood loneliness. It’s a cliché of verite filmmaking, but in this case...
- 11/3/2010
- by Mary Anderson Casavant
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In an awards ceremony Saturday afternoon, the Silverdocs juries announced their choices for best films. "Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)," the debut feature from Stephanie Wang-Breal, took home the award for Best U.S. Feature at the 2010 AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival. Wang-Breal's film, set to air on Pov this August, follows an 8 year old girl, born in China and given the name Faith upon adoption, who ...
- 6/27/2010
- Indiewire
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