Adopt Me, Michael Jordan

ADOPT ME, MICHAEL JORDAN (working title) is a poignant and contemporary coming-of-age film, featuring Weynshet, an adolescent girl adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage by an American family. Weynshet becomes a teenager while navigating the transition from orphanage to family, from one of the world’s poorest countries to one of the richest and from a world where she looks like everyone around to her to one where she is a minority of one. Weynshet’s story offers a child’s eye view of international adoption both in its universals and in the specific experience of one remarkable girl and her family. It is takes neither a pro-adoption nor anti-adoption stance, but acknowledges the complexity involved in the increasingly common practice and thus challenges the viewer to examine their assumptions about international adoption, race and cultural identity.