Deann Borshay Liem

Directing · Korea

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.

Known for

6.7

First Person Plural

2000 · Director

6.0

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

2010 · Director

Geographies of Kinship

2019 · Director

Memory of Forgotten War

2013 · Director

Directed

Crossings

2022 · Director