Talk:Alex Gilbert (adoption advocate)

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From Career --> 2015–present: I'm Adopted project
In January 2017, New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development announced it would no longer be reviewing the Bilateral Agreement for adoption between New Zealand and Russia. Inter-country adoptions from Russia to New Zealand had been put on hold since October 2013. Gilbert understood that these are the views of each country and decision to suspend all adoption ties regarding Russian children should be respected after negotiations broke down between the two countries. However Gilbert expressed his disappointment over the decision.

The documentary is a part of a film series that was released for the 'Change one Life' charity in Russia. Alex was interviewed for the Documentary when he was in Russia in October 2017. It was filmed in Moscow and Arkhangelsk, with him being interviewed and with the documentary showing footage of him revisiting his orphanage in Arkhangelsk.

From Career --> 2018 - present: I'm Adopted book and orphanage supplies initiative
On November 21, 2018, Gilbert personally took the gifts and supplies to the orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia. Travelling from New Zealand to Russia with a large box with the gifts.

2011–present: Television career
As well as being an adoption advocate, Gilbert works as a TV production assistant and camera operator. In his autobiography I'm Adopted, Gilbert talked being interested in television and film ever since his childhood. Gilbert purchased his own camera in 2005 after saving up enough money for one with his paper run job that he had when he was 13 years old.

He went to South Seas Film and Television School in 2011 to study film and television. Gilbert began his professional television career at the start of 2012, working for New Zealand's lifestyle channel Choice TV until the end of 2015. Before this, Gilbert worked as a volunteer assistant when he was in High School for a local television network in his home town, Whangarei. He also was a boom operator for an independent New Zealand film in 2009. He also did work experience in 2011 during his year of film and television study for New Zealand's children television morning show What Now.

Gilbert has previously worked on various films and television shows inside New Zealand and other countries including South Korea, the United States and several countries in Europe. He was an assistant producer for the TV show The Cafe on New Zealand's Three channel and is currently an editor and content producer for Stripe Media.

From Personal life --> Family
After Gilbert was adopted from his Orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia in 1994, his New Zealand parents then raised him and his brother in Whangarei, New Zealand. Gilbert moved out of his family home at the end of 2010 to then study Film and Television in Auckland at South Seas Film and Television School.

Relationship to his biological parents
Gilbert has mentioned about the relationship with both his biological parents in Russia. In his 2018 autobiography I'm Adopted he mentioned that he finds it difficult to keep in contact with his birth mother, due to her alcohol abuse, but keeps in constant contact with his birth father. His birth parents were both in a short relationship in the early 1990s. When fell she was pregnant with Gilbert in late 1991, she did not tell and stopped all communication with him. She then left Arkhangelsk, Russia, after Alex was born. Both his birth parents saw each other again in 2015. The first time since the early 1990s. Both and also met with Gilbert's New Zealand parents in 2015 for the first time. Gilbert went back to revisit both his birth mother and father in July 2018.

 Baffle☿gab  23:08, 12 April 2019 (UTC)