Tony & Janina's American Wedding

“83 minutues you will never forget … deeply moving...puts a human face on the deported and their families.” -Examiner.com “A Poignent tale of deportation.” -Arizona Republic “Heartbreak American style” -Chicago Tribune "Real lives with heartbreaking drama...our immigration system needs overhauling" Chicago Sun Times "Shows how Byzantine & Arbitrary our immigration system i" Chicago Reader "Emotionally Urgent" Chicago International Film Festival "Tackles head on the darkness that is too often associated with families split up by deportation" Undocumented.tv "A must see for anyone who doesn't understand why our broken immigration laws need to be fixed"  -Mathew Kolken immigration Law. com blog Tony & Janina’s American Wedding is an urgent feature length verite’ documentary that gets to the heart of the broken U.S. immigration system. After 18 years in America, Tony and Janina Wasilewski's family is torn apart when Janina is deported back to Poland, taking their then 6 year old son Brian with her, and barred from returning for 10 years.  Protagonist Tony is living in limbo between the two countries he loves: Poland where his wife and son reside and the U.S. where he and Janina have spent their entire adult life chasing the American dream into a nightmare. Set on the backdrop of the Chicago political scene this film follows the Wasilewski's 4-year struggle to be reunited, as their Senator Barack Obama rises to the Presidency.  This film raises larger issues of migration, global citizenship and the core meaning of patriotism, and became the centerpiece of a grassroots advocacy campaign to reunite the family. The film became a clear agent for change and an International breaking news story when the Wasilewski family was reunited on U.S. soil on August 8, 2011.