Film Screening of CROSSINGS
November 10, 2022 | 7:00PM - 9:00PM
The event took place at OCADU Auditorium (room 190), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario.
OCAD University’s Faculty of Art in Partnership with Reel Asian Film Festival presented:
The Kym Pruesse Speakers Series:
ART CREATES CHANGE
Featuring: Deann Borshay Liem
The screening was a Canadian premiere of Liem’s film CROSSINGS, a documentary that follows a group of international women peacemakers who set out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
Deann Borshay Liem, a Sundance Institute fellow, has worked in independent documentaries for over twenty years. Her films include the Emmy Award-nominated documentary, First Person Plural (Sundance, 2000) and the award-winning films, In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (PBS, 2010) and Memory of Forgotten War (with Ramsay Liem; PBS, 2015). As former director of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) she activated the work of racialized artists in public media.
The screening was followed by a conversation featuring Deann Borshay Liem and Christine Ahn of Women Cross DMZ.
Event co-sponsors:
Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies
Korean Office for Research and Education (KORE) at York University
Centre for the Study of Korea at the University of Toronto
Asian Canadian Women’s Alliance
Korean Professional Womens’ Association