Jason Ahn
Director, Producer
Jason Ahn is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and is currently in his second year of studies as a physician-in-training at Harvard Medical School. The urgency of the divided families issue has pushed him to pursue this project.
While a Fulbright scholar to Korea, Jason became interested in the divided families through Saemsori, an organization that works towards formal family reunions between Korean Americans and Koreans living in North Korea. Concurrently, as he retraced his own family history he heard the story of his grandmother’s search for her younger sister living in North Korea and realized the tragedy of their passing away before reuniting. The necessity for a historical record of divided families and the power in showing stories through film inspired him to embark upon the Divided Families Documentary Project.
Director, Producer
Jason Ahn is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and is currently in his second year of studies as a physician-in-training at Harvard Medical School. The urgency of the divided families issue has pushed him to pursue this project.While a Fulbright scholar to Korea, Jason became interested in the divided families through Saemsori, an organization that works towards formal family reunions between Korean Americans and Koreans living in North Korea. Concurrently, as he retraced his own family history he heard the story of his grandmother’s search for her younger sister living in North Korea and realized the tragedy of their passing away before reuniting. The necessity for a historical record of divided families and the power in showing stories through film inspired him to embark upon the Divided Families Documentary Project.