Tuesday, October 22, 2019 | 7pm to 9pm
CUNY Graduate Center – Proshansky Auditorium
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
This co-sponsored screening of the documentary Found in Korea (Running Time: 74 minutes) is part of the 2019 Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY).
Abandoned and left in the streets as a newborn baby, KAD (Nam) returns home to find the world she lost as a baby. In search of her birth parents, she attempts to retrace her journey from birth to being adopted by a family in America, but old records and 35 years of economic growth have transformed the Korea of her infancy into a country where information held on paper is a thing of the past, leaving her with no trail to follow.
Desperate for more information, Nam travels south to the island where she was born in hopes of discovering unknown files and people who might remember her story. Along the way she interviews social workers, Koreans and other adoptees, and discovers why over 200,000 children have been sent away from Korea for international adoption.
There will also be a screening of the short documentary Fender (Running Time: 4 minutes), about another uprooted being who can’t seem to be able to find home. Following the screenings will be Q&A session with Found in Korea director Nam Holtz.
URL: www.foundinkorea.com
Organizer
Korean American Film Festival New York
Co-Sponsors
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
The M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir
The M.A. Program in International Migration Studies
Office of the Dean for Master’s Programs at The Graduate Center, CUNY
