Chun Ki-won Moon Kook-han Suzanne Schoelte Tim Peters Marine Buissonnière Ron Redmond Norbert Vollertsen Sam Brownback
Edited by
Aaron Lubarsky
Music by
David Harris
Production companies
Naked Edge Films Incite Productions
Distributed by
PBS
Release date
November 12, 2004 (2004-11-12) (Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival)
Running time
54 minutes
Country
United States
Languages
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.[1] In April 2007, "Seoul Train" was named runner-up in the National Journalism Awards.[2]
The film was produced, directed, and filmed by Jim Butterworth, a technology entrepreneur in Colorado in the United States, and Lisa Sleeth of Incite Productions. It was co-directed and edited by Aaron Lubarsky, a documentary filmmaker in New York City.
^"Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism:Site Map". Journalism.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on 2009-09-07. Retrieved 2014-04-24.
^[1] Archived July 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
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