In 1965, Tiffany Hsiung's mother was separated from her parents; she never saw them again. 40 years later, Tiffany flies to Taiwan to try & find her grandparents--armed only with two names scribbled on a napkin. Sing Me a Lullaby unravels the complex tensions between love and sacrifice, captured over 14 years and across two continents. Told through the intertwined journeys of daughters and their mothers, this is a story about recovering familial history, healing inherited pain, and understanding that love comes in many forms.
Sing Me a Lullaby is Hsiung’s second documentary to broadcast on POV and arrives on public media after an acclaimed festival run that saw the film win the Shorts Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC, the Share Her Journey Short Cuts Award at TIFF, and the Best Short film Award by the Directors Guild of Canada.
Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Wyncote Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding comes from Acton Family Giving, Nancy Blachman and David desJardins, Chris and Nancy Plaut, Abby Pucker, Bertha Foundation, Reva & David Logan Foundation, Chicago Media Project, Sage Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee and public television viewers. POV is presented by a consortium of public television stations, including KQED San Francisco, WGBH Boston and THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG.
