$Online screening of Kristal Parke's documentary Because She's Adopted w\/Q&A$

Watch Kristal's moving documentary together on Zoom, and then ask the filmmaker questions afterwards. Let's build community!
About this Event

I don’t know about you, but I love watching adoptee-produced documentaries. Watching their life unfold on screen helps me understand adoption on a much deeper level.

Meet an adoptee and filmmaker, Kristal Parke. Her acclaimed film, completed in 2023, is called Because She’s Adopted. It recently won Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver International Movie Awards, and it is gathering more awards as it is making the rounds of the film festivals. Kristal is a Canadian adoptee who was raised in a loving home, where her Indigenous roots were acknowledged but not celebrated. The film walks us through her childhood with her 2 older brothers, her reunion with her birth mother, her struggle with addiction, her intentional reconnection with her Indigenous heritages, and her wrestling with her own identity through life’s ups and downs.

Watch the film together in community via Zoom; then Kristal will answer questions from attendees afterwards.