Changfu Chang, a native of Jiangsu Province, China, is a professor at Millersville University of Pennsylvania teaching in the areas of television production and mass media.  He holds a Master’s from Nanchang University, China and a Ph.D. from Purdue University, United States.  Prior to his coming to the United States in 1995, Dr. Chang worked as a television journalist and a magazine editor in China.  An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Dr. Chang has produced or co-produced a dozen widely acclaimed programs including Chinese Women, The Gate of Fujian, Golden Venture, and Illicit: The Dark Trade.

In the last 11 years, Dr. Chang has been the producer/director/writer of 8 films on adoption: Love Without Boundaries, My Unforgotten Daughter, The Willow Trees, Embracing World Cultures, Long Wait For Home, Peer In The Distance, Sofia’s Journey, and Daughters’ return. He is also the co-director of the documentary, The Invisible Red Thread, produced for the Canadian television network OMNI. Love Without Boundaries (2003), his first documentary on the subject of adoption, is widely regarded as a must-have among the adoptive community and was, along with his other films, aired in major television markets in the United States.  In spring 2008, after 5 years of production, Dr. Chang released Long Wait For Home (48 minutes). This much-anticipated film profiles three birth families, several orphanages, and presents Chinese views on international adoption. In spring 2011, Dr. Chang released Sofia’s Journey (45 minutes) and Daughters’ Return (50 minutes), which document the gripping journeys of three teenage girls in the birth parents search in China that ultimately becomes the search for their own past, identity, and their own place in the complex relationships entwined with love and abandonment. Each film is a rollercoaster, packed with unexpected turns of events, outpourings of emotion, and a timely engagement of critical issues concerning adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents.

Dubbed “the professor of adoption films,” Dr. Chang has received rave reviews for his work. The Adoptive Families magazine called Long Wait For Home “realistic, gritty, and heartbreaking” that provides “answers to the ever-present question: why?” In the revised and updated version of the national bestseller The Lost Daughters of China, author Karin Evans enthusiastically introduced Dr. Chang’s work at length, commending his sensitivity in the depiction of the birth parents and the important contributions he had made to the adoptive community. Dr. Chang was featured in several leading newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the London-based The Financial Times. In addition to interviews by media in North America and Europe, Chinese media give extensive coverage of Dr. Chang’s work. In 2009, China’s Jiangsu Educational Television produced a 45-minute documentary film featuring Dr. Chang and his work.

Dr. Chang continues to write and produce films for the adoptive community and the general public. Currently, he is working on two documentaries: Ricki’s Promise (a sequel to Daughters’ Return) features the 18-year-old title character Ricki’s return to China to live with her birth family, to face her past and fears, and to reflect upon her identity and choices; Orphans In China takes an intimate look at the lives of several orphans who are not adopted internationally but remain in Chinese society.