Monday, September 29, 2008

Extra Credit: Film screening on gay parenthood

Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies and the
Carnegie-Mellon Department of English Allies

present a film

Daddy and Papa

And a panel with

Kristina Straub, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs,
Humanities and Social Sciences, CMU
Mike Bridges, Eberly Teaching Center, CMU
Holly Hippensteel, Student Life, CMU

discussing

Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents

Wed. Oct. 1, 4:30

Baker Hall, Steinberg Auditorium, CMU campus

Daddy and Papa, which profiles four different families, including the filmmaker’s, explores issues such as interracial and open adoption as well as the quest for legal status as parents. A few of its awards are Official Selection at Sundance, Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Florida Film Festival, and Golden Gate Award as the best first person documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. For more information, contact ks3t@andrew.cmu.edu, jordan@cmu.edu, mnovy@pitt.edu or www.english.pitt/adoption_studies

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