Please help support REUNIFICATION!

After spending much time and money on the necessities to bring REUNIFICATION to the world — from the creation of its original music soundtrack and final mixing and color grading, to the first round of film festival submissions this year (averaging $45 per submission, boy they add up quick!), to the broadcast HD deliveries for exhibitions, printing posters & postcards, website, English subtitles, traveling to film festivals and other promotional efforts — I realize that I simply can’t do this alone with the resources that I have. I have the time but not enough money, and therefore humbly ask for your financial support in order to continue. My goal is to bring this film into more festivals, classrooms, community centers, and into your home. Please support REUNIFICATION’s outreach efforts by giving any amount- $30, $60, $100 or more.  When you donate $60 or more, you will get a personally signed DVD copy of the film. Please support in any amount that you can by clicking on the Paypal donate button above.

OUTREACH EXPERIENCE
I have spent many months researching and submitting REUNIFICATION into many festivals, promoting it, and making the film’s website. Festival screenings and classroom visits in San Diego (won Special Jury Prize at SDAFF) and Hong Kong have been wonderful, both in learning about and connecting with community. During post-screening discussions, audiences not only wanted to know more about this 17-year filmmaking process but were also eager to share their own stories about their families and cultures. This kind of sharing promotes healing and understanding of one’s roots. Here are some impressions that stuck out for me – Some viewers who were U.S. born and whose parents or grandparents are immigrants said the film had allowed them to see more clearly the unspoken hardships that their ancestors may have gone through on their immigration journeys. Viewers who are a part of divorce- children and parents of both Asian and non-Asians descent, saw in this documentary a concrete scenario on the communication breakdown between parent and child and their need for healing. Some recent immigrant exchange students, whose parents are still very far away in their native countries, felt a similar sense of alienation and hope shown in this film that encouraged them to know that are not alone. Several courageous film students (and recent grads) showed me their own personal short films on their families and of their sufferings which inspired my empathy and helped me realize that I am not alone. I saw in these exchanges a healing power. A community becomes real only when you and I have some rooted personal understanding, and this kind of exchange is one very tangible way to maintain this vital type of “community building.”