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SEOUL TRAIN By Jim Butterworth and Lisa Sleeth ITVS Community is proud to support SEOUL TRAIN with a variety of community outreach events and materials, in anticipation of its national broadcast on Independent Lens on December 13, 2005. SHOW DESCRIPTION: SEOUL TRAIN is a gripping documentary exposé into the life-and-death struggle faced by North Korean refugees as they flee their homeland through China—which does not recognize their legal status as refugees. SEOUL TRAIN combines verité and hidden camera footage with personal stories and interviews to reveal the harrowing journey attempted by 250,000 refugees. In their clandestine escape over hundreds of miles of Chinese territory via an "underground railroad" of safe houses and hidden routes, the refugees face imprisonment and death if captured and returned to North Korea. SEOUL TRAIN brings to light this humanitarian tragedy of a neglected people risking—and often losing—their lives for freedom. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:
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