What Is the Side by Side Project?

Filmmakers Glenn Morey and Julie Morey created Side by Side as an international journey through the personal stories, memories, and experiences of abandonment, relinquishment, orphanages, aging out, and inter-country adoption—100 accounts of Korean-born adults born 1944–1995, filmed in 7 countries, 16 cities, and 6 languages.

Start by watching the 38-minute film, Side by Side: Out of a South Korean Orphanage and Into the World, which premiered in 2018, winning Best Short Documentary at the Social Justice Film Festival, and screening at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, Boston Asian American Film Festival, Dumbo, and others.

The Side by Side Project is also available as 10 more short films, a New York Times Op Doc, an Audible Original book, and 100 nearly unedited individual stories, representing nearly 70 years of South Korean history, adoptee perspective rarely told, and a largely ignored aspect of Korean Diaspora.