Directed by Deann Borshay Liem
Documentary | 94 Minutes | USA | English | New England Premiere
In-person Q&A with Director Deann Borshay Liem after the screening.
In CROSSINGS, a group of international women peacemakers 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. The groundbreaking mission of Women Cross DMZ is captured in an intimate cinema vérité style, framed with historic newsreels of the Korean War and punctuated with dramatic contemporary news coverage. Undeterred, Women Cross DMZ expands their global campaign to educate and advocate for a peace treaty. Thousands join worldwide as they forge a path with their Korean sisters toward peace and reconciliation.
Advisory: Archival footage of war scenes, death and destruction
Director’s Bio – Deann Borshey Liem
Deann Borshay Liem is Producer, Director, and Writer of the Emmy Award-nominated documentary, First Person Plural and the award-winning films, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee, Memory of Forgotten War (with Ramsay Liem), and Geographies of Kinship. She served as Executive Producer for Spencer Nakasako’s Kelly Loves Tony and AKA Don Bonus (for which she won an Emmy Award); On Coal River; Ishi’s Return; and Breathin’: The Eddy Zheng Story. She also served as Co-Producer for Special Circumstances and Burqa Boxers, and as Story Editor for the Peabody Award film, The Apology, by Tiffany Hsiung. She was the former director of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)
Co-presented by:
Veterans for Peace
Korea Peace Now
Mass Peace Action
Boston Korean Adoptees, Inc.
Global Asian Studies at Northeastern
