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“So compelling that you can‘t stop watching, even though you know it will haunt your dreams.”
—The Wall Street Journal

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
Best Documentary, Libertas Dubrovnik Film Festival
Audience Award, Libertas Dubrovnik Film Festival
Best Documentary, Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival
Best Documentary, Boulder International Film Festival
Best Editing, Milan International Film Festival
Audience Award, Texas Film Festival
Best Global Insight Film, Jackson Hole Film Festival
Independent Spirit Award, Brooklyn International Film Festival



SEOUL TRAIN

by Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth and Aaron Lubarsky

A growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis is threatening East Asian peace as North Koreans try to escape their homeland and China. SEOUL TRAIN exposes the complex geopolitics and bureaucracy entangling the lives of thousands of North Korean refugees as well as the story of activists who put themselves at risk to save them via an underground railroad.

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ITVS: Community Engagement Resources

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CNN's Anderson Cooper interviews filmmaker Jim Butterworth, June 2009

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