{"id":8802,"date":"2025-04-18T12:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=8802"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:36:57","slug":"women-cross-dmz-film-screening-discussion","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/event\/women-cross-dmz-film-screening-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Cross DMZ Film Screening &#038; Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Channel Foundation was delighted to announce the April 22, 2023, screening and discussion in Madison, Wisconsin, of a new documentary film, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.womencrossdmz.org\/crossings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Crossings<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">about women\u2019s leadership in the process of bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula and featuring long-time Channel partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfoundation.org\/grants\/women-cross\/\">Women Cross DMZ<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><span id=\"more-6157\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The screening took place <strong>April 22, 2023, 6 pm,<\/strong> at the <strong>Marquee Cinema<\/strong>, <strong>Union South, UW-Madison<\/strong>, 1308 W Dayton St #245, Madison, WI 53715, and was co-presented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/eastasia.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UW Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS)<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/union.wisc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD)<\/a>.\u00a0 The screening was followed by a Q &amp; A session with the director,\u202fEmmy Award-winning filmmaker <strong>Deann Borshay Liem<\/strong>, and <strong>Christine Ahn<\/strong>, Founder\/Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, and was free and open to the public.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The info about the WUD screening at Union South can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/union.wisc.edu\/events-and-activities\/event-calendar\/event\/wud-film-presents-crossings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In\u202f<em>Crossings<\/em>, a group of international women peacemakers sets out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone (known as the DMZ) between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.\u00a0 Comprised of Nobel Peace Laureates and renowned activists like Gloria Steinem and Ahn, the intrepid team faces daunting challenges as they forge a path with their Korean sisters toward peace and reconciliation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><em>Crossings<\/em>\u202fis a powerful tool to educate audiences on the history of the unresolved Korean War, the role of women in forging peace, and the responsibility of the U.S. to negotiate a peace agreement with North Korea.\u00a0 As\u202f<em>Forbes <\/em>magazine put it, \u201c<em>Crossings<\/em>\u202fis an inspiring film about activism \u2013 in which a group of women set out to accomplish a seemingly impossible mission and, despite serious obstacles and setbacks, succeeds in making an important statement.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">More about the film and past and upcoming screenings can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womencrossdmz.org\/crossings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and the film\u2019s trailer can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mufilms.org\/films\/crossings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Channel Foundation was delighted to announce the April 22, 2023, screening and discussion in Madison, Wisconsin, of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8803,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[123,143,64],"tribe_events_cat":[202],"class_list":["post-8802","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-asia","tag-ewpcrp","tag-wcdmz","tribe_events_cat-screenings","cat_screenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8805,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8802\/revisions\/8805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8802"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trockwebdesign.com\/channel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=8802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}