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An Oregon woman finds an SOS message from a Chinese dissident in a package of Halloween decorations from Kmart, setting off a chain of events that would shut down the entire labor camp system in China and ignite the letter-writer’s dangerous quest to expose a deadly persecution.
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Canadian Screen Award “Best Documentary” Nominee
Top 20 Audience Choice out of 247 films – Hot Docs 2018, Toronto
“An important story, made more intense by its tight focus… well told” – Ken Jaworowski, The New York Times
Silver Punt Audience Award for Best Documentary Film 2018 – Cambridge Film Festival, UK
“An astonishing sequence of events…” – Matthew Bannister, BBC Outlook
Grand Jury Prize for Best International Documentary – Doqumenta, Mexico
“A powerful tale of human suffering, compassion and perseverance” – Kevin Crust, LA Times
Audience Favourite Canadian Documentary Feature – Calgary International Film Festival, Canada
“An example of documentary at its most aspirational” – Andrea Gronvall, The Chicago Reader
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In the film we see the power of a letter. Now it’s your turn.
If you are in the US please write to your local senator asking them to co-sponsor Senate Resolution 220, a bipartisan resolution expressing solidarity for Falun Gong practitioners who have lost lives, freedoms, and rights for adhering to their beliefs and practices.
If you are in Canada please write to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help free Canadian Falun Gong practitioner, Sun Qian, who has been illegally detained in China for over a year and is being tortured for her beliefs.
NEWS
A major newspaper in Japan, Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞), published an article about Letter from Masanjia.
"The documentary got the second highest request from the viewers among the recent broadcasted 100 documentaries on "NHK BS World Documentaries”.
“It (the fifth broadcasting on NHK on 4th June 2019) was a timely broadcasting because the unprecedented demonstration with 2 million people took place in Hong Kong. This incident highlighted the deep-rooted suspicion in the free world against the human rights situation in the mainland China. Masanjia and Hong Kong are linked to each other."
Wow! Airing 5 times by NHK is very rare. I hope the feature length will be released in Japan as well.
I’m really looking forward to it being shown worldwide
That's great!
"Documentaries are a particularly powerful form of storytelling. They have the power to appeal to our humanity, awaken our sense of empathy, and touch our souls. Letter from Masanjia does just that. " Thank you to Dressember for the post!
Letter from Masanjia: A Story of Resiliency
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Storytelling has long been a part of the human experience. Although the mediums and technologies have changed, their immense power to impact us remains. Documentaries are a particularly powerful form of storytelling. They have the power to appeal to our humanity, awaken our sense of empathy, and touWatch Letter from Masanjia to find out what happens after Western reporters are gone. letterfrommasanjia.com/watch/
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