With one of the largest transracial and transcultural adopted communities being in Minnesota, the Minnesota Transracial Film Festival (MNTRFF) was incepted by the international adoptee organization AdopSource in order to showcase both the community and its rich diversity, as well as some of the emerging voices telling their point of view through film, words, and music since 2009.

In 2012, AdopSource partnered with AK Connection and Watch Adoptee Films to develop and evolve to include both adoptee-centric films, films of interest to the transracial and multicultural communities, and to the greater community as a whole.

This year's festival will focus on international/transracial adoptees through the generations. 

• We begin with Ramsay Liem and Deann Borshay Liem's film "Memory of Forgotten War" as the backdrop to the emergence of international adoptions.
• Jaikyong Choi's "Where Are You Going, Thomas?" chronicles the life of a biracial Korean adoptee from the Korean War era who becomes a successful inventor.
• Tammy Chu's "Searching for Go-Hyang" follows the lives and experiences of twin Korean adoptees growing up in the 1970's who travel back to Korea to meet their Korean family
• Bryan Tucker's "Closure" explores the search for self that domestic adoptee Angela embarks upon as she searches for and reunites with her birth family.
  

In addition, we're pleased to announce that a moderated panel has been added to the Minnesota Transracial Film Festival. The purpose of the panel will be to go more in-depth into the films and how/if they are linked by a larger context. 

DATE
Friday, November 15, 2013

TIME
7-11pm

VENUE
Parkway Theater
4814 Chicago Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 

LINE-UP
Memory of Forgotten War
Directed and Produced by Ramsay Liem and Deann Borshay Liem
Short, 37 minutes
2013

Where Are You Going, Thomas?
Short, 30 minutes
2012

Searching for Go-Hyang
Film by Tammy Chu
Short, 32 minutes
1998

*Moderated Panel Discussion*

CLOSURE
Directed and Produced by Bryan Tucker
Feature, 73 minutes
2012