Directors: Carl Gierstorfer, Sebastian Weis, Jonghun Ryu Producers: Wonjung Bae, Tristan Chytroschek
Description:
100,000
forced labourers worldwide are working to provide foreign currency
for North Korea's regime even in the European Union. This
investigative documentary exclusively shows the inhumane conditions
under which North Korean labour brigades are forced to live and work,
and it sheds an important light on how this state-organized human
trafficking helps to finance Kim Jong-un's nuclear program.
Biography: Carl
Gierstrofer is a Berlin-based filmmaker. During the Ebola
outbreak he spent two months in Liberia, following a story of guilt
and forgiveness in times of Ebola. We Want You to Live has
been shown in Germany, France, Scandinavia and the US and has won the
Grimme Award. Just before, he spent two years on the trails of
another virus: HIV. He crisscrossed central Africa, from the forest
regions of Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sebastian
Weis is an award winning
filmmaker, producer and DP working for VICE in Berlin. He studied
literature, psychology and history of art and have completed a
traineeship in journalism in Berlin. During the last seven years he
has produced and directed all forms of factual programs covering
stories globally.
Jonghun Ryu has been making investigative documentaries since 2004, specialising in North Korean issues. His film “Tears of Lost Souls: North Korean Refugees” won the award for best Investigative and Current Affairs Programme at the 2013 Banff World Media Festival in Canada. The documentary depicts the plight of North Korean defectors through the life of one who decided to start a new life – and failed. Jonghun also directed a three-hour series on the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, which won the Silver World Medal in the Current Affairs Category at the 2013 New York TV Festival.
Wonjung Bae is a
storyteller, filmmaker, and photographer interested in the issues of
identity, modernity, and art. Born in Busan, South Korea, Bae made
her first documentary, Grand, Father and Me, at age sixteen
and came to believe in the power of visual storytelling. Bae has won
numerous awards including the Student Academy Award Documentary
Category Gold Medal and the Annual Directors Guild of America Student
Film Award for Women Category.
Tristan Chytroschek has worked as a producer and director for the BBC and Channel Four in
Great Britain and for Discovery/TLC in the United States. He has
lived and worked in London, Los Angeles, Mexico City and
Cordoba/Argentina, before he returned to his native Germany.
