Relative Strangers
During and after the Korean War, thousands of mixed race children were fathered then abandoned by American GIs. They comprised the first generation of Korean orphans to be raised in the racially polarized West. Now many are searching for their birth families, initiating unexpected discoveries about self, family, race, and culture.
Geographies of Kinship
In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and recover the personal histories that were lost when they were adopted. Along the way there are discoveries and dead ends, as well as mysteries that will never be unraveled.
Crossings
In Crossings, a group of international women peacemakers, including renowned activists Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn, sets out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
Vivien’s Wild Ride
After a long career in cinema, film editor Vivien Hillgrove starts losing her sight, forcing her to re-examine past traumas and relationships, and to re-invent herself and her art. Directed by Vivien Hillgrove.
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the U.S. in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, this 8-year-old quickly forgot she was ever anyone else.
Legacies of the Korean War
Legacies of the Korean War is a web-based oral history project that gives voice to the memories of Korean Americans whose lives were shaped by the Korean War.
First Person Plural
In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in California, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated until recurring dreams lead Deann to discover the truth: her Korean mother was very much alive.
Memory of Forgotten War
MEMORY OF FORGOTTEN WAR conveys the human costs of military conflict through deeply personal accounts of the Korean War (1950-53) by four Korean-American survivors. These stories belie the notion that war ends when the guns are silenced and foreshadow the future of countless others displaced by ongoing military conflict today.
Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story
Arrested at 16 and tried as an adult for kidnapping and robbery, Eddy Zheng served over 20 years in California prisons and jails. Ben Wang’s BREATHIN’: THE EDDY ZHENG STORY paints an intimate portrait of Eddy—the prisoner, the immigrant, the son, the activist—on his journey to freedom, rehabilitation and redemption.
Burqa Boxers
Burqa Boxers is a feature length documentary about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata, India, directed by Alka Raghuram and co-produced by Deann Borshay Liem and Premlatha Durham.
The Apology
The Apology, directed by Tiffany Hsiung, explores the forgotten history of the “comfort women,” a term used to describe over 200,000 girls, some as young as nine years old, who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II in Asia.
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