WGBH and Spy Pond Productions is seeking people to be involved with a 90-minute PBS documentary and a website called Adoption Families. The project will explore many sides of adoption, including: open adoption, international adoption, adoption through the foster care system, and people’s quest to learn their background. Built around intimate stories of adoptive families, they will create a high-profile television program for national broadcast. The film will center on approximately five families, or individuals, whose situations and experiences reflect many of the faces of adoption.

The working title of the documentary is Adoption: An American Revolution.

If you are in the process of arranging an open adoption, adopting from the foster care system, searching for your natural parents or roots, and adopting internationally you may want to share your story with Spy Pond Productions.

By contacting Spy Pond Productions to does not mean you are committing to the project, but that you are interested in learning more about the film and are open to talking with them. The contact information is as follows:

Spy Pond Productions:
Phone: (617) 562-1755
Fax: (617) 562-1776

Eric Stange is the Senior Producer and his email address is estange@spypondproductions.com. He can also be reached on his cell phone at
781-820-3032.

Laura Longsworth is a Researcher and her email address is longsworth@rcn.com. She can also be reached on her cell phone at 617-335-3566

The mailing address for Spy Pond Productions is:

Spy Pond Productions
26 Woodland Street
Arlington, Massachusetts 02476

The website for the documentary is www.adoptionfilm.org.

The website is produced by WGBH Boston and it is intended to attract individual donors who will contribute to this two hour documentary for natural public television with an ambitious outreach campaign for school sand communities.

The goal of the documentary is to promote greater understanding of adoption and its unique role in embracing social differences and diversity in America today. They hope to reach a broad national audience with images and examples that support the normalization of adoptive families, removing negative stereotypes and portraying adoption as one of the many ways families are created They hope to provide easy access to new and existing resources for families who want to learn more about children awaiting adoption as well as ways they may begin the adoption process on their own.