Seoul Train
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| Directed by |
Jim Butterworth Lisa Sleeth Aaron Lubarsky |
| Produced by | Jim Butterworth Lisa Sleeth |
| Starring | Chun Ki-won Moon Kook-han Suzanne Schoelte Tim Peters Marine Buissonnière Ron Redmond Norbert Vollertsen Sam Brownback |
| Music by | David Harris |
| Edited by | Aaron Lubarsky |
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54 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English Korean Mandarin |
Seoul Train is a 2004 documentary film that deals with the dangerous journeys of North Korean defectors fleeing through or to China. 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 PBS series Independent Lens. In January 2007, Seoul Train was awarded the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism. In April 2007, "Seoul Train" was named runner-up in the National Journalism Awards.
The film was produced, directed, and filmed by Jim Butterworth, a technology entrepreneur in Colorado in the U.S., and Lisa Sleeth of Incite Productions. It was co-directed and edited by Aaron Lubarsky, a documentary filmmaker in New York City.
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