AVI members in Australia might be interested in a story on SBS Film Online about the ‘Asian Australian Film Forum (AAFF)’, Held in Melbourne, Australia, 12 – 13 November, co-convened by Dr Indigo Willing, AVI founder & VN adoptee (with Amadeo Marquez Perez), and with a couple of speakers on one of the panels (held [...]

Future AVI co-presented events include screenings of Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam. The next one is in Brisbane 7pm on 7th September hosted by the Post Adoption Services Queensland. For Australian updates and the flyer to the above event see www.adopteefilms.info and for international news you can also go to the project website: [...]

A COMMUNITY VIDEO MAKING WORKSHOP Thank you to our guest lecturer Amadeo Marquez-Perez, sponsors and the 15 participants of the below event (inc. adoptees from Vietnam, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Hong Kong and locally in Australia and adoptive families). If you were a participant and would like a DVD of your class exercises please email adopteefilms@gmail.com Workshops [...]

Jessica Emmett writes: When I first started to explore my adoption “self” over 6 years ago, the AVI network and its founding convener, Indigo ‘Indi’ Willing, were one of my first connections I’d made with other adult VN adoptees. I have been on the Advisory Committee for a few years now but always wanted to be able [...]