5 Ways/Five Ways is a narrative feature film, shorthand full title, "5 Imagined Ways In Which Your Birthmother Cedes You to Fate & 5 Impossible Ways in Which You Meet Her Again."

Nearly ten years after the end of China's one-child policy, 5 Ways/5 Ways is composed of ten vignettes. The first five tell their own stories of Chinese birthmothers who, under impossibly difficult circumstances, relinquish their baby daughters. The latter five come from the wild imagination of a Chinese adoptee, each realizing a different iteration of the unlikely reunion with her birthmother.

5 Ways/5 Ways is currently in progress, seeking support for script development. You can view the opening and final scenes, as well as the project proposal, linked to the left (desktop) or above (mobile).