JON FINE FILMS

GIRL, ADOPTED DP Theater Mode

Girl, Adopted is a contemporary coming-of-age story that follows 13-year-old Weynsht from her orphanage in Ethiopia’s capital city to an adoptive American family in rural Arkansas. The film captures an irrepressibly adolescent Weynsht as she works to figure out who she is in the aftermath of her adoption offering an intimate look at the struggle to create identity in the aftermath of adoption across race and culture.

Download the film and get more info at www.girladopted.com

ITVS and Sundance Institute

Directed by Susan Motamed and Melanie Judd

Airing on PBS World Channel Series “Global Voices”