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CAAM is proud to co-present these two new films on PBS.

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CAAM is proud to co-present these two new films on PBS:

WO AI NI (I Love You) Mommy | By Stephanie Wang-Breal
PBS Broadcast: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Check local listings Online: September 1, 2010 through November 30, 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? Stephanie Wang-Breal’s Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy is the story of Fang Sui Yong, an 8-year-old orphan, and the Sadowskys, the Long Island Jewish family that travels to China to adopt her. Sui Yong is one of 70,000 Chinese children now being raised in the United States. Through her eyes, we witness her struggle with a new identity as she transforms from a timid child into someone that no one — neither her new family nor she — could have imagined. A co-production of American Documentary/POV and the Diverse Voices Project, presented in association with the Center for Asian American Media, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (90 minutes)

To learn more, please visit www.pbs.org/pov

IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE | by Deann Borshay Liem
PBS Broadcast: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Check local listings Online: September 15, 2010 to October 15, 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. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee?

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee is the search to find the answers, as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem (First Person Plural, POV 2000) returns to her native Korea to find her “double,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America. A co-production of ITVS in association with the Center for Asian American Media and American Documentary/POV.

To learn more, please visit www.pbs.org/pov