Documentary: The Invisible Red Thread

This may be of interest to those connected to/in the adoption community. I do not believe in any kind of red thread (i.e. fate - so I dislike the title) but am passing on the word.* Broadcast and sales of the doc will begin this fall. Here are some links I was sent, "on behalf of a Montreal filmmaker who has a documentary set to premiere in the Documentaries of the World section of the Montreal World Film Festival.":

film website (their wordpress blog with lots of information)

the Youtube trailer (trailer)

the Montreal World Film Festival programming site (film description)

the company's site (not related to the film exactly)

Here is the Montreal World Film Festival's film description:

THE INVISIBLE RED THREAD

Vivian Lum, 15, is one of 100,000 girls who have been adopted worldwide since China opened its doors to international adoption in 1991. Raised as a typical Canadian teen, Vivian was always curious about her birth land, and has all the same longings and questions as most internationally adopted children. Together with her adoptive father, she returns to her birth city in China's southern Jiangxi Province, visits the orphanage where she spent the first six months of her life and also meets Shumin Zhu, a 14-year-old girl who was similarly abandoned as an infant but adopted by a local rural couple. Vivian and Shumin compare their lives and discover surprising similarities and differences.

Sounds interesting to me, especially since that's where I just went! (Jiangxi Province) Strange how I never once thought of how this could have been my kind of life while in that particular province though, because I was just living in the moment of the immediate experiences and people and sights and smells around me. (This is what is appealing to me about Buddhism, ... not that I'm Buddhist ... - living in the moment and being alive and awake in each moment because that one moment is all we have since we never know what will happen.)

*I wrote this as part of a post on religion:

While I smile at the idea of connection across all borders and boundaries, physical or otherwise, I scoff at " The Red Thread" proverb, which adoptive families seem to mention quite a bit in relation to their own child-parent destinies: "An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances. The thread may stretch or tangle, but never break." Destiny unites, but sometimes it romanticizes a bit too much for my liking.