The Dark Matter of Love Debute in NYC

Dear Friends,

The Dark Matter of Love is playing on BBC4 in the UK tonight & making its US premiere in New York on the 17th of November.

Our BBC broadcast is Pick of the Day in The Sunday Times, The Independent, Radio Times & just about every newspaper and Time Out gave us a four star review.

• BBC4 10pm Tonight

• Time Out Four Star Review

We make our US premiere at Doc NYC on the 17th of November & tickets will sell out fast so if you know anyone in New York you think might like to see the film please send them the below link so they don't miss out.

• Click here for tickets to our NYC Premiere 17th November

• Meet & Greet with Director Sarah McCarthy in New York

We have 20 tickets to an exclusive meet and greet with director Sarah McCarthy after our New York premiere to give away. The first 20 people to buy a ticket to our Doc NYC screening and email info@thedarkmatteroflove.com with the subject - SEE YOU AT MISS LILY'S - will be put on the guest list for the after party.

The Dark Matter Team at our Toronto Film Festival Premiere

If you know people in New York please post our Doc NYC link to your Facebook page, tag your NYC buddies and let them know about our after party competition.

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The Dark Matter of Love Kickstarter Campaign

VIDEO UPDATE - DAY 23

Today The Dark Matter of Love will premiere at The Moscow International Film Festival in front of a packed audience of Russian policy and descision makers.

The support from the Russian press and people has been overwhelming; they are in full support of our goal to reunite the 300 children stuck in Putin's adoption ban with their American families.

Momentum is building in Moscow as the Russian people and press get behind the campaign

With 10 days to go and still a large amount of money to raise, we need you to join the Russian people in saying no to Putin's ban by backing our campaign.

Thank you, and please spread the word to everyone you can.
Sarah

Documentary Brings Light to the Science of Love

Attachment can be one of the more challenging aspects of adopting a child from an institution. Often these children experience trauma, profound loss, and have severe difficulties bonding with their adoptive parents. The Dark Matter of Love, a soon-to-be-released documentary, captivatingly documents the struggles the Diaz family faces as they try to connect with their Russian adopted children and make their family whole. Director Sarah McCarthy takes viewers on a visually stunning journey that follows 11-year-old Masha, and 5-year-old twins Marcel and Vadim, as they transition into family life with Claudio and Cheryl Diaz and their biological 14 year old daughter, Cami.

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The Dark Matter of Love: Child Dies Stuck in Putin's Ban

The Dark Matter of Love Kickstarter Campaign

Yesterday the news broke that one of the 300 children stuck in Putin's adoption ban has died in Russia from an untreated heart condition.

Click below for a full update on the situation and to hear how it's affected our campaign.

Daria died in Russia earlier this month as her parents fought to bring her to the US

Read about the story and our campaign in The Washington Post

The situation for the 300 children has become more urgent than ever.

Please back the campaign now and spread the word on your own networks.

Thank you.
Sarah

Click here to watch the campaign video

Film Against Anti-adoption Law to Be Screened in Moscow

Two American parents have joined forces with a documentary filmmaker to urge the Russian government to end the anti-adoption law which is stopping over 300 children coming to the U.S., according to an emailed statement.

Sarah McCarthy's latest film "The Dark Matter of Love" tells the story of the last three Russian children adopted by parents in the U.S., before the controversial law was passed at the end of 2012. Her film will be screened at the Moscow Film Festival later this month and aims to show much pain the law is causing.

Mil and Dianna Wallen's teenage son Maxim, nicknamed Max, is one of the children affected by the adoption ban.

"We miss Max terribly every day. Our son is now stuck on the other side of the world because of this new law," said Mil and Dianna Wallen. "But it's not just our son. More than 300 children, many with severe health problems, are currently stuck in orphanages in Russia. These children have adoptive families whom they have met and started to fall in love with, waiting for them in America."

The Wallens have launched a petition urging the Russian government to allow them to complete the adoption of their teenage son Max.

So far more than 63,000 have signed the petition.

"We always end our conversations with Max with 'I love you to the moon and back,' and Maxim tells us he loves us 'to the moon and back,'" said Mil and Dianna.

The anti-adoption law is viewed by many as the Kremlin's retaliation to the Magnitsky Act, which bans Russian officials deemed to have violated human rights from acquiring U.S. visas and assets.

Source: http://www.themoscowtimes.com

Hopscotch Adoptions Endorses: The Dark Matter of Love

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The Dark Matter of Love Joins the Fight to Free the 300

The Dark Matter of Love screens on Capitol Hill to an audience of policy and decision makers

 

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The Dark Matter of Love Kickstarter Campaign

This feature documentary tells the story of three of the last Russian children able to be adopted into an American family - Masha, Vadim and Marcel. After some inevitable teething problems, the children flourish in their new family. The film demonstrates the difference the love of a family can make to a child's development.

On January the 1st 2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin passed a law banning the adoption of Russian children into American families. Approximately 300 Russian children just like Masha and her brothers have met and started to fall in love with their families, but can no longer complete their adoptions. 

 The film will have it's Russian premiere at the Moscow Film Festival in June

 

The film then goes on to screen to representatives from 56 nations at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Istanbul in July

When director Sarah McCarthy was making The Dark Matter of Love, she had no idea that President Putin was going to pass this law. Suddenly her film became a 90 minute demonstration of what these children are being denied.

In April 2013 the film screened in conjunction with the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, National Council on Adoption, CASE and Cinema for Peace to an audience of policy and decision makers on Capitol Hill.

The film makes its Russian premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival in June 2013, accompanied by a petition of over 63,000 signatures. Key Russian policy makers will be in attendance at the screening, as well as American parents waiting to be united with their adopted children.

 

 President Obama will meet with President Putin in mid June

With your help, we can elevate the campaign and put pressure on leading officials to take action. THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE is currently raising funds through Kickstarter for a screening tour of Russia and the US to raise the profile of the situation. To see our campaign video click here. Please join us in the fight to bring these children home.

You can learn more about the film and accompanying campaign in this piece from The Huffington Post.

 

 300+ Russian children like Evie are waiting to be re-united with their adoptive American parents.

The Dark Matter of Love - Science Can Change the Way You Love

The Dark Matter of Love Trailer from The Dark Matter of Love on Vimeo.

When
Monday April 22, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT

Where
United States Capitol
Capitol Visitor Center
Washington, DC 20510
Info on Getting to the Capitol

You are invited to a FREE documentary film screening of THE DARK MATTER OF LOVE on Monday, April 22 at 6:00pm!

The Center for Adoption Support and Education, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute and the National Council for Adoption are jointly sponsoring this screening to increase the community's awareness of the complexity of moving children into adoptive families with histories of trauma, severe attachments and profound loss.

In this film, Masha, an eleven year old Russian girl, learns to love her adoptive American family through a scientific intervention. Professor Emeritus Dr. Robert Marvin, an expert in attachment, has spent a lifetime developing a program to help children learn to love. Rare footage of his extraordinary experiment is woven through the story of Masha learning to love for the very first time. 

Please join Dr. Robert Marvin in the discussion about our community's continued investment in accessible and effective post adoption  services for families faced with these challenges.

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Thank you for your attention! We hope you can attend this exciting event!