Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)

How Fang Sui Yong became Faith Sadowsky.

2010

76 mins

In the last decade, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. Now, there are over 70,000 Chinese children being raised by American families. Eight-year old Fang Sui Yong, aka Faith Sadowksy, is just one of them. After being abandoned at 2, sent to a city orphanage for two years, and then taken in by a loving Chinese foster family, Faith's life is suddenly upended when she is adopted by Donna and Jeff Sadowsky, a Jewish family in Long Island, New York.

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Wo Ai Ni Mommy explores, for the first time, what it feels like to be adopted from the child’s perspective. This intimate and honest story is told in real-time by Faith as she tearfully parts ways with her birth culture, language and foster family—the only family she’s really ever known. Wo Ai Ni Mommy documents her struggle to adapt to her new life in America and offers a rare glimpse into a personal transformation that neither she, her American mother, nor the filmmaker could have ever imagined.

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Stephanie Wang-Breal

Stephanie Wang-Breal is an award-winning independent filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. Stephanie's debut film, "Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You, Mommy)" was nominated for an Emmy® and has been awarded the Grand Jury Award at the AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The film had its national broadcast premiere on PBS's award-winning documentary series, P.O.V.

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