Deann borshay liem biography

 

Deann Borshay Liem is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian known for films that explore war, memory, family and identity including her landmark adoption films First Person Plural, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee and Geographies of Kinship.

Deann Borshay Liem has over twenty years experience working in development, production and distribution of independent documentaries.

Deann Borshay Liem has over twenty years experience working in development, production and distribution of independent documentaries.

Deann Borshay Liem is an Emmy Award-winning documentarian known for films that explore war, memory, family and identity including her landmark adoption films.

Liem has developed, produced and distributed independent films.

I was born after the fighting had ended and was adopted during the Park Chung Hee military dictatorship.

Her work on the Korean War including Memory of Forgotten War, Crossings and the oral history project, Legacies of the Korean War, explores divided families and women’s role in peacemaking. She has served as Executive Producer, Producer, Executive in Charge and consultant on numerous films including The Apology, Mimi & Dona,Seeing Allred,Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning, Ishi’s Return,The Eddy Zheng Story, Kelly Loves Tony, AKA Don Bonus and many others.

She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, California Humanities, Sundance Institute, Rockefeller Foundation and San Francisco