Description

Outside Looking In features three American families brought together—and at times pushed apart—by transracial adoption. Filmmaker and transracial adoptee Phil Bertelsen examines the bonds and strains that family members experience when white couples decide to adopt and parent black children. Through the stories of three generations of adoptees, the film explores the many complex issues that arise when child and parent do not share the same racial background. These voices—sometimes confident, sometimes questioning, and at times frustrated—narrate America's struggle to understand and address its own racial history.

Production Credits & Notes

Arts Engine presents a Big Mouth Film
Outside Looking In is a presentation of the Independent Television Service with additional funding provided by the National Black Programming Consortium

Written and Directed by Phil Bertelsen
Produced by Katy Chevigny
Co-Produced by Dallas Brennan Rexer
Outreach Coordinator: Angela Tucker
Edited by Emma Joan Morris
Original Music by Erin O'Hara
Camera by John Foster and Alejandro Smith