POV

by Deann Borshay Liem

Broadcast Date: September 14, 2010

Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. (60 minutes)

by Nicole Opper

Broadcast Date: September 7, 2010

Avery is one of three children adopted by a Jewish lesbian couple in Brooklyn. Though it may not look typical, Avery’s is like most families—until she writes to her birth mother. (90 minutes)

by Stephanie Wang-Breal

Broadcast Date: August 31, 2010

What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country, family and culture? (90 minutes)

by Deann Borshay Liem and Nicole Opper and Stephanie Wang-Breal

Broadcast Date: August 31, 2010

POV features three films about adoption — Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy by Stephanie Wang-Breal; Off and Running by Nicole Opper; and In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee by Deann Borshay Liem — and has launched a national public awareness campaign to examine issues facing adoptees and families who choose to adopt. Watch all three films online through November, 2010. (various minutes)

by Deann Borshay Liem

Broadcast Date: August 10, 2010

A young Korean girl grows up with an American family: but years later, Deann Borshay Liem discovers that her Korean mother is still very much alive. (60 minutes)

by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt

Broadcast Date: September 26, 2000

New Hampshire’s “Live Free or Die” motto acquires tense contemporary meaning when abortion politics play out in a quiet New England town.

by Veronica Selver and Sharon Wood

Broadcast Date: September 19, 2000

This riveting film takes us through KPFA's passionate 50-year history, including its founding by pacifists and poets, through its defiance of Cold War conformity, to the present day challenges that confront this on-going experiment in democratic media.

by Jasmine Dellal

Broadcast Date: August 29, 2000

There are over one million Gypsies living in America today, and most people don’t know anything about them. It is one man’s obsessive pursuit of justice and dignity that led filmmaker Jasmine Dellal into their hidden thousand-year-old culture. (54 minutes)

by Lisanne Skyler

Broadcast Date: August 22, 2000

With a roll of the dice, 75 year-old Lou stakes everything to retire and start a new life in Las Vegas. But beneath the glittering surface of the city, Lou discovers a world quite different from his dreams.