Abandoned Adopted Here
Synopsis
What if your image isn't the same?
What then?
An independent documentary exploring the experience of growing up as a culturally displaced British East Asian during pre-multicultural 60s UK. A look at identity, transracial adoption and is there such as thing as being British Chinese/East Asian
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 39 mins
- Director
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Lucy Sheen
- Producer
- Lucy Sheen
- Editor
- Ronit Meranda
- Screenwriter
- Lucy Sheen
- Director of Photography
- Ronit Meranda
- Sound
- Tim Bamaber
- Composer
- Kevin McLeod
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