CREW BIOS
JOTA MUN / DIRECTOR and PRODUCER
Jota Mun (they/them) is an emerging director with a passion for supporting social justice through film. They edited the Emmy-nominated Netflix series "Who Killed Malcolm X?" (2019) and most recently edited episode 1 of “Gospel” a PBS series from Henry Louis Gates. Jota was selected by Firelight Media to be a 2021-2023 Doc Lab Fellow for directing Between Goodbyes. As a queer Korean adoptee, this films is very close to their heart.
ZOE SUA CHO / PRODUCER
Zoe Sua Cho (she/her) is a Korean-born, New Zealand-bred filmmaker and co-founder of Mass Ornament Films. She produced “THEY” an official selection at Cannes Film Festival and co-produced the feature documentary “Drifting towards the Crescent”. Most recently Zoe edited and produced the feature film “House of Hummingbird”, which premiered at Busan International Film Festival where it won the KNN Audience award and the NETPAC award for best Korean film and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Generation 14+ Competition Grand Prix for Best Film.
BARB LEE / PRODUCER
Barb Lee (she/her) is the founder and President of both Point Made Films, a documentary production company and Point Made Learning, a consulting company that, using the stories of PMF, provides organizations with story-based education on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Lee is the director and producer of the feature length documentary “Adopted” (2008). The film includes a companion DVD, Adopted: We Can Do Better. which is still used as training material in adoption agencies across the country.
ALEX GIBNEY / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Alex Gibney (he/him) was called “the most important documentarian of our time” by Esquire Magazine. He has a signature cinematic style that lends itself to penetrating, gripping, and deeply insightful documentaries. He is the Founder / President of Jigsaw Productions.
MAIKEN BAIRD / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Maiken Baird (she/her) most recently directed and produced "Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich" for Netflix. Baird was an Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning film "Icarus". She is a frequent collaborator of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, first producing "Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" in 2010; later collaborations include "Totally Under Control" and BAFTA-nominated "City of Ghosts".
MIEKE MURKES / CO-PRODUCER
Mieke Murkes (she/her) is excited to share her family’s story and is passionate about representing her community in a new light. She hopes this film can complicate the narrative of birth family reunions, queer adoptees, and non-extractive filmmaking. Mieke is currently based in Utrecht.
JIMIN LEE / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Jimin Lee (she/her) has worked on over 50 art films and music videos. Her American projects include working as a camera assistant on Black Panther, and as a camera trainee on Sense8. She is currently based in Seoul and loves working in all types of film, including narrative and documentary.
MICHELLE CHANG / EDITOR
Michelle Chang (she/her) is a Brooklyn based documentary film editor whose credits include, “Down a Dark Stairwell”, “When Claude Got Shot”, “Harbor From the Holocaust”, “Hidden Wounds”, “Like Any Other Kid'“, and “(A)Sexual”. She was selected as a 2009 fellow for the Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab. Michelle's latest feature is part of the award winning ESPN series, 30 For 30, which follows Jeanette Lee, the professional pool player better known as the Black Widow.
GENE BACK / COMPOSER
Gene Back (he/him) is a Korean-American film composer and multi-instrumentalist. The first American composer to have been selected as a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Breakthrough talent, his work spans across film music, theatre, XR, instrumental compositions, and songwriting, and has worked with a wide range of artists, from Talib Kweli to Ennio Morricone's orchestra (Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta).
SUNG ROK CHOI / SOUND DESIGNER
Sung Rok Choi (he/him) is a sound designer and re-recording mixer based in Los Angeles. He started his career with feature films including "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" (dir. Park Chan-wook) and "Barking Dog Never Bites" (dir. Bong Joon-ho). In 2005, Sung Rok was the Supervising Sound Editor and Mixer for the film "Tale of Cinema" (dir. Hong Sang-soo) which was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He has continued his career as a Sound Designer and Mixer on fiction and documentary films such as “Snowpiercer” (dir. Bong Joon-ho), “A Woman’s Work” (Tribeca 2019), “37 Seconds” (Berlinale & Netflix 2019), “I Was A Simple Man” (Sundance 2021). Sung Rok was nominated for an MPSE Award in 2010, 2011 and 2020.
JASON POLLARD / CONSULTING EDITOR
Jason Pollard (he/him) has been editing documentaries for over 10 years. His work includes “Slavery By Another Name” and “Sing Your Song”, which both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, “Get Me Roger Stone” which premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Netflix series “Rapture”.
DEANN BORSHAY LIEM / CONSULTING PRODUCER
Deann Borshay Liem (she/her) is the Producer, Director, and Writer of the Emmy Award-nominated documentary, “First Person Plural” as well as the award-winning films, “In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee” and “Memory of Forgotten War”. She was the former director of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) and a former Sundance Institute Fellow. Deann is the Director, Producer and Writer of “Geographies of Kinship” and the new documentary, “Crossings”.
ADDITIONAL KEY CREW
FIELD PRODUCERS / MINI KIM, JUNHEE HAN, SYLVIA FRANKENA
CAMERA OPERATORS / SION SEO, EUNSOO CHO, SEULKI KIM
SOUND RECORDISTS / SOMIIN KWAK, UDO LEE, SAM HUISMAN
RUELLA ROUF / ASSISTANT EDITOR
MEGAN GRAHAM / ARCHIVAL PRODUCER
NATASHA WONG / COLORIST
SHEINA DAO / FINISHING PRODUCER
KEVIN TRAN / TRAILER EDITOR