Here’s the film. Free. Because of the times we’re living through. Family separation is horrible for future generations and needs to be investigated. The filmmaker is independent and does not get paid for her work unless the film is rented or bought. If you are moved to donate or rent/buy even though you are welcome to watch for free, that would be greatly appreciated, so she can finish the sequel, which is also an indie production.

*special thanks to Latin Grammy® winning producer, composer and arranger, Emilio D. Miler

Made possible by PFAD

Made possible by La Voz del Hijo

Reckoning with the Primal Wound

FOG Lift
Productions

Your story deserves more than a therapy session.
Let's film it, produce it, and put it into the world — together.

F.O.G. = Fear · Obligation · Guilt

Story sessions
Filmed 1-on-1 sessions where you tell your adoptee story with a professional documentary filmmaker holding the space.
Full productions
We produce your story as a short documentary — edited, scored, and published on the RWTPW YouTube channel and podcast.
Search & reunion docs
Filming your search, reunion, or first meeting with birth family — preserving the moment with care and craft.
Narrative consulting
Not ready to film? Work with Autumn to shape your story — structure, arc, what to say and how to say it.

Consulting
$150
per hour
narrative & story shaping
Full Production
Custom
short documentary
contact for quote

RWTPW YouTube — published to the Adoptee Army community
RWTPW Podcast — audio distributed to all major platforms
FOG Lift archive — permanent home for adoptee stories told on their own terms
Ready to lift the FOG? Produced by Rebecca Autumn Sansom — filmmaker, adoptee advocate, founder of The Wavys.

“Y’all. It’s brilliant. I have never felt so seen in my 50+ years of life. Even my husband, who typically needs several pieces of evidence to subscribe to an idea, watched this film and saw reflections of me, such as the disassociation, the sense of loss, and the relationship problems. The theory of the primal wound describes my life.” KE Garland adoptee author of In Search of a Salve

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“You have made MAGIC.”

Anne Heffron, Author and Adoptee

“I cried for the first time in 41 years.”

Ron C., adoptee

“This movie is so beautiful.”

Amy Ebbeson, LCSW Worcester Addresses Childhood Trauma

“Supporting this film is supporting those who are bringing the truth to light.”

Valerie Naiman, adoptee and author of Mystic Masquerade: An Adoptee’s Search for Truth

The work is poetic and raw at the same time. The strength of first mother and daughter uniting to carry out this project is palpable.”

Gonda Von Steen, author and ally Kings College London

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-- Andrea Ross, author of Unnatural Selection: A Memoir of Adoption and Wilderness in LITPUB.”

“I found it so powerful the way that (Rebecca Autumn Sansom) was able to field the perspectives of so many different parties involved in the adoption constellation. Just to see a sibling, her bio sibling, grappling with what that meant. To be like, “Suddenly I have this sister.”... I think getting that validated is really important, just as much as it is for our experience to be validated."

Sheila (Adoptive Mother)

“Thank you again for bringing the core of Primal Wound to life through this film.”