Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 6pm to 9pm
The City College of New York
259 Convent Avenue – Shepard Hall Rm 291, Manhattan
In 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 – CROSSINGS explores the one war that still has yet to end – the Korean War. Starting in 1950, the Korean War never resulted in a peace treaty. Four million died, and the two divided parts of the peninsula still bear so many residual impacts – families that remain separated, two sides heavily militarized, and U.S. forces still based in the South. This year, 2023, marks the 70th anniversary of the Armistice – an agreement to end the fighting, which was supposed to culminate in a peace treaty, but has yet to happen.
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening of CROSSINGS, and panel discussion with filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem, along with Christine Ahn, Executive director of WomenCrossDMZ, a member of the delegation Aiyoung Choi, producer Sarah Kim and other production members to learn about the making of the film and the effort to press for peaceful talks instead of sanctions and military threats.
Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
