Film Crew
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 Adoptee (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 (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 and President of Jigsaw Productions.
Maiken Baird (she/her) most recently directed and produced Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich for Netflix. Baird was an Executive Producer for 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.
DEANN BORSHAY LIEM / CONSULTING PRODUCER
MAIKEN BAIRD / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Deann Borshay Liem (she/her) is the Producer, Director, 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 of Asian American Media (CAAM) and a former Sundance Institute Fellow. Deann is the Director, Producer, and Writer of Geographies of Kinship and her new documentary, Crossings.
Sung Rok Choi (he/him) is a sound designer and re-recording mixer who started his career with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (dir. Park Chan-wook) and Barking Doc Never Bites (dir. Bong Joon-ho). He has continues his career as a Sound Designer and Mixer on fiction and documentary films such as Snowpiercer, 37 Seconds (Berlinale & Netflix 2019), and I Was A Simple Man (Sundance 2021). Sung Rok was nominated for an MPSE Award in 2010, 2011, and 2020.
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 Jeannette Lee, the professional pool player better known as the Black Widow.
Gene Back (he/him) is a Korean-American film composer and multi-instrumentalist whose recent work spans critically acclaimed films and Randall Park’s directorial debut, Shortcomings, and the powerful biopic Cabrini, directed by Alejandro Monteverde. 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, working with a wide range of artists, from Andrea Bocelli to Talib Kweli.
Christina “X” Seong (she/her) is a queer adoptee, artist, activist, and user experience designer based in Seattle. She started her career creating and designing community-based museum exhibitions before showcasing her own artwork online and in galleries. She has been in reunion with her original family since 2013. Her journey through love, loss, and grief has inspired her artwork exploring the connection, or rather disconnect, to Korea as a BIPOC adoptee.
ZOE SUA CHO / PRODUCER
JOTA MUN / DIRECTOR and 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. Most recently, Zoe edited and produced the feature film House of Hummingbird. It 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.
Jota Mun (they/them) is the director and producer of Between Goodbyes, winner of 14 film festival awards in five countries; including best emerging filmmaker from South Korea’s DMZ International Film Festival. The film was selected to screen at DOC NYC, SIFF, and many others.As an editor, Jota’s credits include the Emmy-nominated Netflix series “Who Killed Malcolm X?”Jota has screened the film in academic settings as well by guest lecturing at Harvard, UCLA, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
ALEX GIBNEY / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
BARB LEE / PRODUCER
JIMIN LEE / DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
JASON POLLARD / CONSULTING EDITOR
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.
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 premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and the Netflix series Rapture.
MICHELLE CHANG / EDITOR
SUNG ROK CHOI / SOUND DESIGNER
CHRISTINA “X” SEONG / IMPACT PRODUCER
GENE BACK / COMPOSER
Film Participants
Okgyun Kang (she/her) never expected to be in a film! However she was so generous with her time and honesty throughout the process. She was really overcome with emotion upon seeing the finished film. Okgyun is based in Seoul where lives with her husband Kwangho, not too far from where her two daughters Mijin and Mikyung and their families live.
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 and queer adoptees. Mieke is currently based in Utrecht, Netherlands.
RUTH CHON / PARTICIPANT
Ruth Hyunsuk Chon (she/her) is the founder of TheRUTHtable, a support network for original mothers who have lost their children to international adoption. She holds a Master’s degree in Marital and Family Therapy from the Seoul Graduate School of Counseling and Psychology, and is pursuing her doctorate at the Graduate School of Social Welfare, Soongsil University.
MIEKE MURKES / MAIN PARTICIPANT
OKGYUN KANG / MAIN PARTICIPANT