"Going Home"

A new film in production by ThirdCat Productions.

From the website:

We learn a new love, a new laugh, and a new cry as we uncover ourselves with age. We might feel that this comes from our growth within- but we cannot deny that our surroundings and our culture plays a part.

A Third Culture Kid lifestyle embodies the adaptation of doubly dynamic surrounding cultures.

A Third Culture Kid grows up in an environment outside of their own parent’s native background. They discover the cultures they are exposed to, while not identifying with one in particular.

Their lifestyle touches upon facets of candid contradictions and interesting dichotomies. Similarly, transracial adoptees are exposed primarily to their adoptive parent’s culture and are unable to identify with their own genetic culture.

The documentary will explore the story of Jason Hoffmann, a transracial adoptee. Jason, an adoptee from South Korea, has been raised by a Jewish-American family in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

As a case study, Going Home will also explore the story of Mikyung Kim, an Adult Third Culture Kid. Although Mikyung is Korean, she was raised in Hong Kong where she attended a British elementary school, an American school, and finally college in Boston.

Going Home will put the spotlight on the social implications of discovering one’s own roots. Jason will immerse himself in the South Korean lifestyle and as he searches for his birth parents, we will see him journey into a new world physically, mentally, and emotionally.

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