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 journalist at Fujian Television Station and an editor at a magazine 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 9 years, Dr. Chang has been the producer/director/writer of 6 films on adoption: Love Without Boundaries, My Unforgotten Daughter, The Willow Trees, Embracing World Cultures, Long Wait For Home, and Peer In the Distance. Love Without Boundaries, 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. This much-anticipated film profiles three birth families, several orphanages, as well as present Chinese views on international adoption.

Billed as “the professor of adoption films,” Dr. Chang has received rave reviews for his work, particularly for the latest release, Long Wait For Home. The Adoptive Families magazine called the film “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 in length, commending his sensitivity in the depiction of the birth parents and the important contributions he had made to the adoptive community. In addition to many interviews by the U.S. media, Dr. Chang was profiled in several Chinese news programs. Currently, a 50-minute documentary film featuring Dr. Chang and his work is being produced by China’s Jiangsu Educational Television.

Versed in the production environments in both China and the West and privileged with the assistance from a Chinese crew (of his former colleagues) and a U.S. crew (of his former broadcast students), Dr. Chang continues to write and produce films for the adoptive community and the general public. Currently, he is working on two productions. Daughters Return documents 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 above all, for their own place in the complex relationships entwined with love and abandonment. Orphans In China takes an intimate look at the lives of several orphans who are not adopted internationally but remain in Chinese society; the film also addresses various challenges orphans face in an increasingly market-oriented, business-driven society.