Synopsis

A Place Called Home: An Adoption story is the heartwarming documentary of one family's struggle to adopt nine children in the face of overwhelming odds. Five years in the making and told from the perspective of their eldest son, A Place Called Home is a documentary filled with the joy and pain that can often accompany the adoption process.

 

After reading a Mother's Day newspaper article, Baby Boomers Tom and Jean Gaunt (of Indianapolis, Indiana) decided to wave goodbye to there four year-old empty nest and attempt the second largest sibling group adoption in United States history...  Read more

 

 

Latest News

 

A Place Called Home can now be seen by Indianapolis residents at Heartland On Demand on Channel 627 available to subscribers of Bright House Networks Digital Cable.  Heartland On Demand is a new free channel dedicated to bringing you the best of the last fifteen years of Heartland Film Festival movies. 

 

A Place Called Home, other Crystal Heart Award winners and Official Selections are the films that audiences just couldn't get enough of during the Festival each October. Heartland Truly Moving Pictures and Bright House Networks have teamed up to create a digital On Demand channel like no other.

 

 

The historic Gaunt Home continues to be featured on the TV Program "If Walls Could Talk" on the Home & Garden Channel.  "Jean and Tom Gaunt of Indianapolis, Indiana shared the secrets of Warren Tate, the man with a short temper and quick trigger finger that lived in their sprawling home."  The next airdate will be October 25th at 7pm/8pm.  Click on the HGTV logo above for more details.

 

 

Stephanie's Poetry is available here on our website.  Here is a poem she wrote titled "Family".

 

Being in a family teaches social graces, How to get along with new faces, It also makes us learn to care, And that it is better to work as a pair. What do we learn by being in a family?  What do we teach each other?  What do we hold for each others' future?

 

We learn to accept responsibilities, And figure out our own abilities, We learn to self control, And to search our soul. What do we learn by being in a family? What do we teach each other? What do we hold for each others' future?     Read more...

 

 

A Place Called Home won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film.