People are the Sky
A naturalized American citizen born in North Korea, this filmmaker interweaves two themes: search for home and ordinary people, while exploring how North Korea has reached the current state. The majority of the extant work on Nort...
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"People are the Sky, by Korea-born American filmmaker Da- Sil Kim-Gibson, is a film about her journey back to her childhood hometown in North Korea. Goes into the history of North and South Korea, the Korean War, and the devastation of North Korea by the US-led military in 1950s. Of course the filming in North Korea was highly restricted and she was chaperoned wherever she went, so but still she manages to capture the humanity of North Korean people and the connections she made with them during her journey. Great interviews with Korea experts, including Columbia Professor Charles Armstrong, and..."
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A naturalized American citizen born in North Korea, this filmmaker interweaves two themes: search for home and ordinary people, while exploring how North Korea has reached the current state. The majority of the extant work on Nort...