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Finding Family is a realistic dramatic film intended to encourage families to consider fostering older children and sibling groups.
Log line:
A horse trainer and her husband want to adopt a baby through foster care. Foster care, however, convinces them to foster three troubled teens including a boy with a history of animal abuse.
In addition to seeking online and theatrical distribution, the film will be given free to foster agencies to encourage people to consider fostering older children and sibling groups. All proceeds will be donated by our fiscal sponsor, CascadiaNow!, to non-profit organizations that benefit older foster kids.
CascadiaNow! is a 501(3)c non-profit organization. All donation to Finding Family Movie are tax deductible.
“I wondered what could make that kid kill his grandmother....”
“...every child deserves the chance to find out ho their [birth] family is.”
“When they [her nephews raised in foster care] came here it was like they’d know us their whole lives.”
“[When children] don’t see anyone who looks like them, talks like them, that’s a disservice to children.”
“[Finding Family Movie] brings empathy to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to relate.”
“The idea is that they [the foster kids] create their own businesses that are profitable. After they age out of the system they can grow their business, sell, what ever they want to do.”
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“The first memory of my life was my dad broke a beer bottle over my head. I was two years old..”
“My stepfather was the only kind and loving adult I’d ever know. He made my mom better an he made my family better.”
“After my step Dad died my mom lost it. She went back to drugs. We were taken to a group home. where we were separated by age and gender. I didn’t see my sisters for the entire summer.”
“My grandparents wanted to put us older kids in foster care and adopt my baby sister because they thought she was the only one who hadn’t been damaged by our life style.”
“This foster mom got into foster care for the stipend that she got for each kid she had in her house.... and any opportunity she had se would take the allowances we got from the state too.”
“I’ve seen near miraculous things happen when these kids can live in a sober and non threatening environment...they start to develop closeness and that’s what so many of them are yearning for.”
“I worked at the Griffin Home for Sexual Offenders. This sounds a lot worst than it was. Most of the kids there just had their needs mixed up and when they were able to meet their needs in giving ways and started to make contact with their own creativity wonderful things happened.”
“There was never a chronic case were alcohol wasn’t involved. If someone is hooked on cocaine or heroine you can be sure there would have been some alcohol too along the way.”
“I always will miss those kids. It [working with them] was vibrant because they were learning.— and not the ABCs— they were learning things they needed to know to have a life.”
“There wasn’t really a childhood...”
“The first time I ran away...”