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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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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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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Donna and Jeff Sadowsky prepare to adopt their fourth child from China.
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Fai Sui Yong's Chinese foster family explain that moving to America with her new adoptive family will give Sui Yong better opportunities.
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Chinese adoptee Faith Sadowsky talks about struggling to learn Chinese and feeling more American than Chinese.
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Fang Sui Yong meets her new adoptive mother for the first time.
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Faith tries to learn English with her new mother.
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Faith becomes frustrated with trying to adjust to life with a new family in America.
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The Sadowskys see a counselor who specializes in transracial adoption.
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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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Chinese adoptee Faith Sadowsky remembers back to meeting her adoptive family for the first time.
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Filmmaker Interview
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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What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country, family and culture?
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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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