In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and recover the personal histories that were lost when they were adopted. Raised in foreign families, each sets out on a journey to reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.
Geographies of Kinship is the recipient of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, California Humanities, and the Berkeley Film Foundation. Additional support is provided by The Lawrence Choy Lowe Memorial Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, the Channing and Popai Liem Education Foundation, and our generous Kickstarter supporters.
GEOGRAPHIES OF KINSHIP is now available for classroom use on New Day Films!
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A group of internationally renowned women peacemakers crosses the DMZ from North to South Korea, calling for peace on the Korean peninsula. The film follows key women leaders, including Gloria Steinem and two Nobel Peace Laureates, on this historic journey.
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 U.S. in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, this 8-year-old quickly forgot she was ever anyone else.
Legacies of the Korean War is a web-based oral history project that gives voice to the memories of Korean Americans whose lives were shaped by the Korean War.