Vivien's Wild Ride airs nationally on PBS's Independent Lens at 10pm on January 26, 2026. The film will also stream on the PBS app through April. Hope you can tune in! Check here for additional information.

Join us for Adoption and Re-Kinning, an evening featuring Geographies of Kinship and a conversation with filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and scholar Rosemarie Peña. November 6, 2025, Deutsches Haus at NYU. Registration is free here.

Relative Strangers is the recipient of the Saul Zaentz Award from Berkeley Film Foundation! The award is given each year to honor the legacy of renowned filmmaker and a BFF founder, Saul Zaentz, and is made possible with support from The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation. We are deeply honored to receive this award. See the full list of the 2025 grant award winners here.

Vivien's Wild Ride screens at the Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival Oct 19 at 4:40 PM at the Cornerstone Arts Center; virtually Oct 23-26. Buy tickets here!

The international premiere of Vivien's Wild Ride will be at Doc Edge Festival starting July 5th! Screenings in Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington as well as virtually for New Zealand residents. Tickets here.

Vivien's Wild Ride will have a special screening at BAMPFA as part of its Summer Series June 8 and June 21. Special guests include Producer Deann Borshay Liem, Editor Eric Ivey, Composer Todd Boekelheide, Producer Janet Cole, and film participant Kathleen Toschi. Hope you can join us! Closed captioned; audio described; wheelchair accessible. Tickets here.

Vivien's Wild Ride has its World Premiere at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 18 and 19! Buy tickets here. Closed captioned; audio described. 

South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commision (TRC) reports widespread fraud, malpractice and human rights violations in Korea's adoption practices. Listen to Deann Borshay Liem discuss her reaction on NPR.

To contribute to the current global dialogue about South Korea's adoption practices, Geographies of Kinship is re-airing on the PBS App now through end of May 2025. Watch here!

Geographies of Kinship screens Nov 7 at 8pm at Studio De Bakkerij in Rotterdam, Netherlands, as part of a week-long program about adoption called "Far from Here." Tickets and RSVP here.