Deann Borshay Liem Trailers
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Deann Borshay Liem (born Kang Ok Jin) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker internationally known for her landmark adoption films, First Person Plural, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, and Geographies of Kinship. She has directed, produced, and executive produced a variety of award-winning documentaries and is the director/editor of a series of videos for legaciesofthekoreanwar.org, a web-based oral history project giving voice to memories of Korean Americans whose lives were shaped by the Korean War.
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18 December 2000
In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California.
01 January 2013
Unknown or forgotten by most Americans, the Korean War divided a people with several millenniums of shared history.
11 March 2016
Arrested at 16 and tried as an adult for kidnapping and robbery, Eddy Zheng served over 20 years in California prisons and jails.
10 May 2022
In hopes of putting an end to the 70-year war that still does not have the peace treaty, a group of internationally renowned women peacemakers come together to plan a march to cross the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from North to South Korea.
10 November 2019
In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.
27 September 2024
When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to the surface alongside tenderness, humor, and tenacity.
19 April 2025
When veteran film editor Vivien Hillgrove discovers that she is losing her sight, she embarks on an unconventional documentary memoir.
25 June 2010
On Coal River takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia — a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat.
12 March 2010
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 United States in 1966.
