- Winner
Dallas Asian Film Festival · Audience Award, Best Documentary (2019) · Winner
- Social impact
Follows four Korean adoptees retracing their origins, part of a body of work that helped support political reforms easing pressure on single mothers in Korea's adoption system
AsianWomenDirectorsPublic Beta
Deann Borshay Liem
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- BelongingGenerations
- Region
- North America
- Heritage
- South KoreaUnited States
- Featured in
- Cinema Across BordersActivist Cinema
Biography
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.
Selected Filmography
Selected Recognition
- Winner
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival · Comcast Audience Award, Best Documentary (2010) · Winner
- Winner
Asia Pacific Film Festival · Best Editing (2010) · Winner
- Winner
San Francisco International Film Festival · Golden Gate Award (Grand Jury Prize, Best Bay Area Documentary), Golden Spire (2000) · Winner
- Winner
DocAviv Film Festival · Best Documentary (2000) · Winner
- Nominee
Emmy Award · Outstanding Informational Programming (2001) · Nominee
