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North Korea. Your house is on fire. What do you try to rescue first? Your kids? Your pet? No, the first thing you reach for is the portrait of the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un and his father and grandfather that is hanging on your wall, as mandated by the authoritarian government. Everything else can wait. Such …
In the film Beyond Utopia, Madeleine Gavin obtained secret footage that shows what life is truly like for ordinary people in the country.
For its tenth year, the Docs to Watch roundtable was held at the 2023 SCAD Savannah Film Festival and it consisted of some of the biggest names in documentary filmmaking over the past few years. The panelists included Maite Alberdi (The Eternal Memory), Mstyslav Chernov (20 Days in Mariupol), Madeleine Gavin (Beyond Utopia), Davis Guggenheim… Continue reading How 2023’s Documentary Directors, Including D. Smith And Raoul Peck, Found Throughlines In Connecting To Their Subjects
The name Pastor Kim comes up early in Madeleine Gavin’s Beyond Utopia. A gentle, aching man, Pastor Kim tells Gavin he has ensured the escape of over 1,000 people from North Korea in the last 10 years. He’s one of the leaders of this Underground Railroad in the area, leading defectors through rivers, mountains, and
"This is a nail-bitingly tense account of the network of safe houses and 'underground railroads' used to get defectors to freedom."