KINDRED
THE MOVIE, THE MOVEMENT
While this film is about present day foster care reform, its roots start 35 years earlier. Amy and Rachel growing up as children and being best friends are rocked by a trauma both too young to understand. Anger and guilt separate them as teens and by adulthood they lost touch. Enter Michael, Rachel's adopted son. In the chaos and red tape of his adoption, Rachel and Amy reconnect in social media and in real time. By fighting for children without a voice ,heal childhood wounds. The movie is about reform. The project is about friendship and family that you choose and create. It is stronger then you ever could imagine.The story follows the tale of Michael, a former foster child now adopted into a loving same-sex family home. Through interviews with him and other former fosters, adoption advocates, reporters, adoptive/foster parents and a former NYC family court judge; we present a weaving tale of how the system is tragically and sometimes fatally flawed.
Through the stories of several now adult fosters who were never able to find forever families, we learn about what happens when an individual is abandoned for life. They discuss how hard it has been for them to want to survive and the unnatural, physical and spiritual compromises they have had to make to do it. Facing the constant underlying challenge to do it without becoming drug addicted or criminals as so many people are forced to do to survive. These people are the less than 1% acceptation to the rule. One is now getting her MBA, after having to work and take infinite loans to get her undergraduate degree, a process that has taken her over 16 years.
KINDRED PRODUCED BY HOOVER DRIVE PRODUCTIONS
Orlando
Portland