Seoul Train

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name = Seoul Train

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director = Jim Butterworth
Lisa Sleeth
Aaron Lubarsky
producer = Jim Butterworth
Lisa Sleeth
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starring = Chun Ki-won
Moon Kook-han
Suzanne Schoelte
Tim Peters
Marine Buissonnière
Ron Redmond
Norber Vollersten
Sam Brownback
music = David Harris
cinematography =
editing = Aaron Lubarsky
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released = 2005
runtime = 54 minutes
country = USA
language = English
Korean
Mandarin
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website = http://www.seoultrain.com/
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imdb_id = 0402492

"Seoul Train" is a 2005 award-winning documentary 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 Emmy Award-winning PBS series "Independent Lens". In January 2007, "Seoul Train" was awarded the Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism. [http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1175295299883/page/1175295299866/simplepage.htm] In April 2007, "Seoul Train" was named runner-up in the National Journalism Awards. [http://foundation.scripps.com/foundation/news/releases/07march09.html]

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, an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker in New York.

Awards

* 2007 Alfred I. duPont – Columbia University Awards — Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism (broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. [http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1175295299883/page/1175295299866/simplepage.htm]
* 2007 National Journalism Awards — Runner-up, Jack R. Howard award for excellence in electronic media/TV-cable. [http://foundation.scripps.com/foundation/news/releases/07march09.html]
* 2006 INPUT: International Public Television Screening Conference (Taipei, Taiwan)
* 2005 ONE WORLD – Priština Film Festival (Priština, Kosovo) — Winner, Jury Award for Best Film.
* 2005 Libertas – Dubrovnik Film Festival (Dubrovnik. Croatia)
** Winner, Audience Award for Best Film.
** Winner, Jury Award for Best Documentary.
* 2005 Crested Butte Reel Fest (Crested Butte, CO)
** Winner, Audience Award for Best Film.
** Winner, Silver Award (Jury) for Best Documentary.
* 2005 Brooklyn International Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY) — Winner, Independent Spirit Award (Jury).
* 2005 Jackson Hole Film Festival (Jackson Hole, WY) — Winner, Best Global Insight Film (Jury).
* Artivist Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA) — Winner, Jury Award for Best Human Rights Documentary
* 2005 Texas Film Festival — Winner, Audience Award for Best Documentary.
* 2005 Milan International Film Festival (Milan, Italy) — Winner, Jury Award for Best Editing.
* 2005 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival — Finalist, Jury Award for Best Short Documentary
* 2005 Boulder International Film Festival (Boulder, CO) — Winner, Jury Award for Best Documentary.
* 2004 Ft. Lauderdale Int’l Film Festival (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) — Winner, Jury Award for Best Documentary.

External links

* [http://www.seoultrain.com "Seoul Train" website]
* [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/seoultrain/ PBS's "Independent Lens" website about "Seoul Train"]
* [http://www.ironweedfilms.com/films/seoultrain Ironweed Films' article on "Seoul Train"]
* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113409047897817954.html Wall Street Journal review on "Seoul Train"]
* [http://movies.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/arts/13heff.html The New York Times review on "Seoul Train"]