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A Place Between - The Story of an Adoption
20071 h 14 min 15 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Curtis Kaltenbaugh
Production: Joe MacDonaldGraydon McCreaMichael ScottDerek Mazur
Script: Curtis Kaltenbaugh
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.
A Place Between - The Story of an Adoption is a dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families. But much more than that, it is the journey of a cross-cultural adoptee who struggles to find balance between his families' different ethnicities and traditions and to discover how and where he fits into each world.
Following the tragic death of their younger brother in 1980, Curtis Kaltenbaugh, 7, and his brother Ashok, 4, were removed from their birth mother's care in Manitoba and adopted into a white, middle-class family in Pennsylvania. This film follows Curtis' struggle with his biological family's turbulent history and observes what happens when his biological and adoptive families finally meet.
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Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Adoption and Foster CareIndigenous Youth
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > ChildrenCultural IdentityFamily Life
- Media Education > Documentary Film
- Indigenous Studies > History/PoliticsIdentity/SocietyIssues and Contemporary Challenges
Credits
- writer
- Curtis Kaltenbaugh
- director
- Curtis Kaltenbaugh
- editor
- Kenneth George Godwin
- narrator
- Curtis Kaltenbaugh
- camera
- Keith Eidse
- Kenneth George Godwin
- Andrew Lee
- Fred Mislawchuk
- Claude Savard
- location sound recordist
- Jay Garuk
- Marvin Polanski
- original music
- Greg Lowe
- narration recording
- Howard Rissin
- sound editor
- Howard Rissin
- online editor
- Tony Wytinck
- re-recording mixer
- Howard Rissin
- production coordinator
- Monique Perron
- Rolande Petit
- program administrator
- Cyndi Forcand
- marketing manager
- Leslie Stafford
- transcripts
- Patricia Garry
- production supervisor
- Scott Collins
- producer
- Joe MacDonald
- executive producer
- Graydon McCrea
- Michael Scott
- Derek Mazur
Awards
- Best Public Service AwardAnnual American Indian Film Festival