Seoul Train
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Seoul Train is a 2005 award-winning documentary that deals with the dangerous journeys of North Korean defectors fleeing for a better chance in life. These journeys are both dangerous and daring, since if caught, they face forced repatriation, torture and possible execution.
Seoul Train has been broadcast on television around the world, including on the Emmy Award winning PBS series Independent Lens.
The film was produced, directed and filmed by Jim Butterworth, a technology entrepreneur in Colorado in the US, and Lisa Sleeth of Incite Productions. It was co-directed and edited by Aaron Lubarsky, an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker in New York.
[edit] External links
- Seoul Train
- PBS's "Independent Lens" subsite about Seoul Train
- Ironweed Films' article on Seoul Train