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Deann Borshay Liem
Mark Adler
Deann Borshay Liem
Deann Borshay Liem
Michael Chin
Sara Chin
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When Deann Borshay set out to make a documentary about herself, she realized that she was making a film about three different people from two different countries. She was adopted by the Borshays, a typical middle-class American family. But when she investigated her adoption years later, she found pictures of two babies: Cha Jung Hee and Ok Chin. Thinking her birth name was Cha Jung Hee, but noticing that her looks match that of Ok Chin, Deann embarks on a journey to find out her true identity and ends up uncovering the story of her unknown family and the socioeconomic forces that placed the wrong baby on a plane to America.
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Deann Borshay Liem
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Winner of Grand Prize for Best Bay Area Documentary Feature at the 2000 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Released in United States 1999
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States January 2000
Shown at docfest: New York International Film Festival May 31 and June 2-6, 2000.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 20 - May 4, 2000.
Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) January 20-30, 2000.
Feature directorial debut for film producer and Executive Director of NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association) Deann Liem Borshay.
Broadcast in USA over PBS as part of program "POV" December 18, 2000.
PBS acquired domestic television rights at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
Released in United States 1999
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at docfest: New York International Film Festival May 31 and June 2-6, 2000.)
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 20 - May 4, 2000.)
Released in United States January 2000 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Documentary Competition) January 20-30, 2000.)
