Proteus Gowanus » in the matter of cha jung hee http://proteusgowanus.org An interdisciplinary gallery and reading room Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:40:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee: a documentary http://proteusgowanus.org/2015/02/in-the-matter-of-cha-jung-hee-a-documentary/ http://proteusgowanus.org/2015/02/in-the-matter-of-cha-jung-hee-a-documentary/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2015 21:00:58 +0000 http://proteusgowanus.org/?p=4427 Thursday, March 12, 7pm
$5 admission

In conjunction with the Trade Routes exhibition, this documentary film explores a troubling side of the international adoption trade involving a Korean child. Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for this Korean adoptee who came to the US in 1966. Told to keep her true identity a secret from her new American family, this eight-year-old girl quickly forgot she was ever anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? This documentary is the search to find the answers about this troubling aspect of the international adoption trade. It follows acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem as she returns to her native Korea to find her “double,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America.

Trailer and more info: http://www.mufilms.org/

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