Today’s guest is fellow Canadian, award-winning director and filmmaker, Adrian Wills. Adrian has a brand new documentary out called A Quiet Girl where get to follow his journey of a public search for his birth mother, and experience every new discovery along with him. Today we talk with Adrian about how his friends prompted his search and what he’s discovered about the people of Newfoundland through his time there. We also discuss how we often create these mythical personas of our biological parents from a few short sentences in our non-identifying adoption information.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

A Quiet Girl:
- Stream in Canada: https://www.nfb.ca/film/a-quiet-girl/
- Stream in US on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100019207/a-quiet-girl
Sing Me a Lullaby by Tiffany Hsiung: https://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/shorts/sing-me-a-lullaby
Family Wanted: Writers' Adoption Stories (2005) Edited by Sara Holloway

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