A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption
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| director = Curtis Kaltenbaugh
| producer = Joe MacDonald
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| narrator = Curtis Kaltenbaugh
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| music = Greg Lowe
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| editing = Kenneth George Godwin
| studio = National Film Board of Canada
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| released = {{Film date|2007}}
| runtime = 74 minutes
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A Place Between – The Story of an Adoption is a 2007 Canadian documentary film dealing with cross-cultural adoption and aboriginal life in Canada.David Schmeichel, "Family matters; New doc a personal journey for local filmmaker". Winnipeg Sun, November 26, 2007. It was directed by Curtis Kaltenbaugh and produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
Curtis and Ashok Kaltenbaugh were born in Manitoba and are of First Nations ancestry. After the 1980 death of their younger brother, at the ages of 7 and 4 respectively, they were removed from the custody of their birth mother and placed for adoption with a middle-class white family living in Pennsylvania. The film chronicles their search for identity and the meeting of their adoptive and birth families.Randall King, "Doc takes personal look at cross-cultural adoption". Winnipeg Free Press, November 15, 2007.
The film won the Best Public Service award at the 2007 American Indian Film Festival.{{Cite web |title=A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption |publisher=American Indian Film Festival |url=http://ukadoptionregister.org/ |accessdate=January 17, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114145914/http://ukadoptionregister.org/ |archivedate=January 14, 2014}} It was a nominee for the Donald Brittain Award for best social or political documentary at the 23rd Gemini Awards in 2008."Dramas rack up Gemini nominations". Winnipeg Free Press, August 27, 2008.
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Category:Indigenous child displacement in Canada
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