UPCOMING EVENT - KIMJONGILIA SCREENING WITH DJ SPOOKY

We are excited to invite you to the fifth EchoChamber event of the year, a very special screening of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival documentaryKIMJONGILIA, directed by NC Heikin and executive produced by Mike Figgis. The date of the event is Monday, July 13th at 7:30pm, at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Your donations at the event will benefit the Citizen's Alliance of North Korean Refugees, and your attendance will be an invaluable show of support for the families of US journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have been trapped behind North Korea's iron curtain since March.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with:

• NC Heikin, director
• David Hawk, former executive director of Amnesty International, member of the board of directors of Human Rights Watch- Asia and author of Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps
• John Delury (moderator), Asia Society's associate director for US-China Relations

Kimjongilia is the first film to fully expose the humanitarian crisis of North Korea through a tapestry of defectors’ stories, North Korean propaganda, and original performance. This artful, avant garde doc shows why the defectors fled, describes their hair-raising escapes, and recounts the dangers they face in China, hunted by Chinese as well as North Korean police. Their stories all speak of body-and-soul killing repression and paint a picture of a country so far off the rails it defies belief. The Sundance Institute describes the film as "stylish and deeply moving...totally original and utimately inspiring." The LA Times says Kimjongilia is "visually striking" and "inventively constructive."