Film features NKorean defectors' struggle

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 23, 2023 12:24 am

LOS ANGELES: Earning your subject's trust is never easy for a documentary filmmaker — but it is even harder when they think you want to kill them.

That was the challenge faced by US director Madeleine Gavin, whose movie 'Beyond Utopia' follows newly escaped North Korean defectors as they flee.

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