BRUNSWICK – Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, an independent Korean-American filmmaker and author, will speak at Bowdoin College Thursday, Nov. 29. Her lecture, titled “Comfort Women: Memory and History,” is open to the public and admission is free.

Kim-Gibson has written a book and produced a documentary, both titled “Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women,” about women who were forced into sex slavery by the military during wartime. The publication Asian Week called the documentary “a hauntingly brilliant film.”

She is widely known for championing the issues of human rights, marked by her imprint of humanizing the storytellers and inventive formats. Besides “Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women,” her critically acclaimed films include “America Becoming,” “Sa-I-Gu,” “A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans,” “Olivia’s Story,” and “Motherland.”

Kim-Gibson’s films have garnered many awards and were screened at numerous festivals worldwide, in addition to national broadcasts on PBS and on the Sundance Channel in the United States.

The lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Kanbar Hall, room 107. For more information, call 725-3552.