The Making of "Nothing To Envy" Film

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Via indiegogo November 20, 2012

One of the best books written about North Korea's recent history is the award-winning "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" by Barbara Demick. In this fast page-turning chronicle, Demick presents a rare up close and personal view into the daily lives of people living within a horrifying and brutal totalitarian nation. Through fifteen years of tyrannical rule and hardship after hardship, the author follows six North Koreans who fall in love, get married, raise families and confide their innermost thoughts and feelings in Demick. As unemployment and famine ravage the land, the six families risk everything to escape.

Now a small award-winning documentary production company named Mosaic Films is in the early planning stages of the production of an animated feature film based on Demick's book. Led by filmmaker Andy Glynne, Mosaic Films is now running a donation campaign in an effort to secure funding for production costs. Supporters for this film include Amnesty International, NK News, Christian Solidarity Worldwide and others. Below is a trailer and a short message from Glynne:



And here is part of an interview with North Korean defector Kim Jooil. This is part of a testimony initiative within the Nothing to Envy project.



If possible please contribute to the making of the "Nothing To Envy" documentary here. There are many interesting prizes being given away for donors. For more information please visit the movie's official website.


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In the same kind of Lolita entertainment genre like Japan's AKB48 and the US's Honey Boo Boo, we now have child abuse child models as seen in a recent auto show somewhere in China:



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'The Defector' Film Premieres at IDFA

Via DocGeeks November 17th, 2012

Last December we reported on the The Defector documentary while it was still being produced by the award-winning Fathom Film Group. Their kickstarter project achieved its funding goal on December 11, 2011 and the post production of this film was completed. Now this movie has been selected to premiere at the prestigious International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA). Filmed undercover by Korean-Canadian filmmaker Ann Shin, this documentary will be showing at the IDFA from November 14-25. Shin had this to say about the film:

“The film has been 3 years in the making and we’re excited to be launching at IDFA” says Producer/Director Ann Shin. “It’s about a human smuggler who deals with desperate North Koreans wanting to escape."

Here is the new trailer for this movie:



The Defector: Escape from North Korea will also be released online as a first-person POV interactive web documentary. This will enable viewers to experience what it is really like to be a defector! This mixed media motion picture will also be shown at upcoming festivals and broadcast on TVO, Canal D and CTS in 2013.



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Kim Jong Un "Sexiest Man Alive 2012"

Via The Onion November 14, 2012

2012 has been a banner year for North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. In February he showed the world that he is, in fact, "an immortal warrior of the celestial sun" as "The Great Eater". In July, he won an Olympic Gold medal and then he became a world famous movie star! And, now, he has been chosen as the Sexiest Man Alive For 2012!

What else can we say? "North Korea is Best Korea!"

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Ichiro Suzuki's Baseball Throwing Demo Videos

If you know anything about baseball, then for sure you know that superstar Ichiro Suzuki is one of the very best players ever in the history of the sport. He may also be the very best outfielder to ever play the game as his ten consecutive Gold Glove awards are a strong testament to his excellent play in the outfield.

Ichiro may also have the most accurate throwing ability as well. Recently Sato Pharmaceutical Co., the makers of a popular health tonic or "Genki Drink" called "Yunker", made some cool TV commercials from a series of his amazing baseball throwing demo videos:



The below video shows some incredible highlights of the making of the above TV commercial:



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