Heartbreak and Hope as Adoption Squeeze Hits Hollywood: "I Want to Smash My Head Against the Wall …"
This story first appeared in the Oct. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. By last winter, when Emmy-nominated cinematographer Joia Speciale flew to San Antonio to meet the woman who would give birth to her daughter, she had been trying to become a parent for a decade. She'd done IVF. She'd attended a seminar about foster adoption. She'd turned to international adoption, but weeks before she was to meet a 16-month-old girl in an Uzbekistan orphanage, that country banned U.S. adoptions. "That child disappeared," says Speciale.
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- 10/15/2015
- by Kalee Thompson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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