The Invisible Red Thread
- A one-hour documentary for broadcast on OMNI TV in Fall 2011
In 1995 a newborn baby girl was found on the steps of a hospital in the Chinese city of Jiujiang. She was handed over to an orphanage where they named her Li Bao. Six months later she was adopted by a Canadian couple and renamed Vivian. Vivian is now one of over 100,000 girls who have been adopted worldwide since China opened its doors to international adoption in 1991. Vivian describes herself as a typical North American teenager, but who might Vivian have been if she hadn’t been one of the international adoptees, and was adopted instead by a Chinese family?
Now a fifteen-year-old growing up in Toronto, The Invisible Red Thread follows Vivian from Canada to China as she discovers the land she left and the life she might have led if she’d remained there. Together with her adoptive father, Vivian returns to the city of her birth in China’s southern Jiangxi Province where she meets Shumin Zhu, a fourteen-year-old girl who was also abandoned as an infant, but adopted by a couple in rural China. Vivian and Shumin compare their lives and discover surprising similarities and differences. Through Vivian and Shumin’s stories, The Invisible Red Thread explores the ripple effects of China’s One Child Policy across two continents and the ties that still connect Vivian to China.
Watchers of the North
- Broadcaster: APTN
- 6 x 30 min. documentary series
Watchers of the North follows an eclectic collection of military reservists known as the Canadian Rangers. Armed with the WWII-era Lee Enfield rifle, the only weapon that works reliably in the frigid Arctic, these Canadian Rangers are officially the military's 'eyes and ears' of the North across 163 remote coastal communities. Watchers of the North takes viewers on duty as the Rangers rescue lost hunters, track downed planes, teach Canadian Armed Forces personnel how to survive in the extreme north all the while passing on First Nations and Inuit traditions to the younger comers. The Rangers' compelling on-duty and off-duty lives will unfold in stories that portray the complexities and challenges of life across the Canadian North.
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