Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy
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Internet Call With the Foster Family
After being in America for 17 months, Chinese adoptee Faith Sadowsky has become fully Americanized. Her English is excellent, but her Chinese has deteriorated. In this clip from Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy, Faith struggles to communicate in Chinese with her foster family during an internet call.
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Donna Sadowsky (featured in Wo Ai Ni Mommy) talks about how she came to adopt Faith and what she hopes people will take away from watching the film.
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Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal talks about making Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy and how Fang Sui Yong turned into Faith Sadowsky.
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Faith's parents, Jeff and Donna Sadowsky, provide an update on some of the things that have happened since filming ended.
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Wo Ai Ni Mommy filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal and subjects Donna and Faith Sadowsky answered audience questions at a recent NYC screening.
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Adoption expert Amanda Baden (featured in Wo Ai Ni Mommy) talks about a common feeling amongst Asian Americans that no matter how much they adopt Western culture, they will always be perceived as foreign because of the way they look.
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Adoption expert Amanda Baden (featured in Wo Ai Ni Mommy) talks about why adoptive parents choose to adopt internationally instead of adopting a child in the United States.
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Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy is the story of Fang Sui Yong, an 8-year-old orphan, and the Sadowskys, the Long Island Jewish family that travels to China to adopt her. Sui Yong is one of 70,000 Chinese children now being raised in the United States.
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