Directing
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.
Crossings
2022
Director
movieGeographies of Kinship
2019
Director
movieMemory of Forgotten War
2013
Director
movieFirst Person Plural
2000
Director
movieBetween Goodbyes
2024
Consulting Producer
movieBreathin': The Eddy Zheng Story
2016
Executive Producer
On Coal River
2010
Executive Producer
movieFirst Person Plural
2000
Producer