Family Portrait in Black & White
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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Streaming Film
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Title from title frames.
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In Process Record.
Date/Time and Place of Event
Originally produced by Interfilm Productions in 2012.
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Olga Nenya has 27 children. Four of them, now adults, are her biological children; the other 23 are adopted or foster children. Of those 23, 16 are biracial. She calls them "my chocolates," and is raising them to be patriotic Ukrainians. Some residents of Sumy, Ukraine, consider Olga a saint, but many believe she is simply crazy. An inheritance from the Soviet era, a stigma persists here against interracial relationships, and against children born as the result of romantic encounters between Ukrainian girls and exchange students from Africa. For more than a decade, Olga has been picking up the black babies left in Ukrainian orphanages and raising them together so that they may support and protect one another. The filmmakers interview with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine reveals the real dangers for a dark-skinned individual in the street. These white supremacist youth joke about their evening raids and how police seem to let them do it. Prosecutors are not particularly determined to give strict sentences to racially motivated crimes, and young thugs can get away with probation for beating someone nearly to death. Olga sends her foster children to stay with host families in France and Italy in the summers and over Christmas, where they are cared for by charitable families who have committed to helping disadvantaged Ukrainian youth since the Chernobyl disaster. Olga's kids now speak different languages, and the older girls chat in fluent Italian with each other even while cooking a vat of borscht. But Olga doesn't believe in international adoption and has refused to sign adoption papers from host families that wanted to adopt her kids. "At least when the kids grow up, they'll have a mother to blame for all the failures that will happen in their lives," she says.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
(2015). Family Portrait in Black & White . Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)2015. Family Portrait in Black & White. Kanopy Streaming.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Family Portrait in Black & White Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Family Portrait in Black & White Kanopy Streaming, 2015.
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5863e242-2bba-9c32-25e0-503690b6c83e-und
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| Full title | family portrait in black and white |
| Author | kanopy |
| Grouping Category | movie |
| Last Update | 2024-04-30 15:17:32PM |
| Last Indexed | 2024-09-07 02:35:53AM |
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| Last Used | Aug 30, 2024 |
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| First Detected | Aug 17, 2023 05:27:54 PM |
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