New York Screening of “A Girl Like Her”

NY screening of "A Girl Like Her" adoption movie

WHO: Donaldson Adoption Institute

WHEN: June 11th, 2013 6:30 to 9:00 PM

WHERE:   The Century Association at7 W 43rd St  New York, NY 10036

BONUS: Ann Fessler will be there!

Figures. I have been waiting and waiting for a New York Screening of Ann Fessler’s A Girl Like Her, for over a year now. I finally gave in and ordered my DVD copy of the movie adaptation of The Girls Who Went Away and watched it last week. Just in time….

Donaldson Adoption Institute Brings A Girl Like Her to NY

Here’s the info!

A Girl Like Her Adoption Movie  New York Screening

The Donaldson Adoption Institute invites you to help celebrate the creation of the Lynn Franklin Fund featuring a special screening of:

A GIRL LIKE HER

Special Guest: Ann Fessler, Producer and Director of A Girl Like Her

  • Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres
  • Screening and Panel Discussion
  • Business Attire Required 
  • RSVP Required at: rsvp@adoptioninstitute.org.
  • Please note space is limited 

About the Lynn Franklin Fund
 
Lynn Franklin is a first/birth mother, writer and literary agent who has been in reunion for over 20 years. The fund bearing her name was created to honor Lynn’s life and service on behalf of adoption reform. It will be dedicated to enabling unique, important work to improve the lives of birth/first parents everywhere – and to ensure that their experiences, needs and aspirations are addressed in all adoption-related laws, policies and practices. More about the Fund here.
 

A Girl Like Her
 
A Girl Like Her tells the story of more than a million women, rendered voiceless and invisible, who were forced to surrender their children for adoption in the 1950s and 60s. The footage illuminates the past as the women’s voices recount their experiences of dating, pregnancy, family reaction, banishment, and the long-term impact of surrender and silence had on their lives.

 

About the Author

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Musings of the Lame was started in 2005 primarily as a simple blog recording the feelings of a birthmother as she struggled to understand how the act of relinquishing her first newborn so to adoption in 1987 continued to be a major force in her life. Built from the knowledge gained in the adoption community, it records the search for her son and the adoption reunion as it happened. Since then, it has grown as an adoption forum encompassing the complexity of the adoption industry, the fight to free her sons adoption records and the need for Adoptee Rights, and a growing community of other birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted persons who are able to see that so much what we want to believe about adoption is wrong.