Film and Panel: CROSSINGS, women peace makers cross the DMZ
6PM
In the documentary film, CROSSINGS, a group of international women peacemakers 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. The groundbreaking mission of Women Cross DMZ is captured in an intimate cinema vérité style, framed with historic newsreels of the Korean War and punctuated with dramatic contemporary news coverage. The group included renowned activists Gloria Steinem and Christine Ahn, and several Nobel laureates. Veteran documentarian, Deann Borshay Liem, tells an exquisitely touching and crucial story that advocates for peace, as she followed the delegation.
In this time of European conflict and heightened tensions in Asia - this film explores the one war that still has yet to end - the Korean War.
Join filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem, along with Christine Ahn, Executive director of WomenCrossDMZ, a member of that delegation, Aiyoung Choi, and producer Sarah Kim and other production team members to screen the film and hear about the making of the film and the effort to press for peaceful talks instead of sanctions and military threats.