“FINDING COURAGE”
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“Essential viewing."
~ European Documentary Magazine
“This may be one of the most important documentaries
we have ever received.”
~ Jersey Shore Film Festival
“Powerful…Definitely worth watching.”
~ Real to Reel Film Festival
"Profoundly touching."
~ Hong Kong Bilingual News"
"Gripping and haunting.
Finding Courage grabbed our audience from the very first frame."
~ Treasure Coast Intl. Film Festival
“A hard-hitting documentary.”
~ Journal of Political Risk
“‘Finding Courage” shows you exactly what the human heart can do.”
~ Phil Tuckett,
Filmmaker, recipient of 30 Emmy awards
"I can’t tell you how critical this film is."
~ Pastor Greg,
Host of Chosen Radio
"This documentary needs to get out, share it!"
~ Joshua Phillipps,
Host of Crossroads, The Epoch Times
"Eye-opening and totally absorbing!"
~ Manny the Movie Guy,
MSNBC, Film Critic
THE STORY
A former journalist for the Chinese Communist Party (YIFEI WANG), living in exile in San Francisco, struggles to settle into life in America while working to heal her family’s wounds from their tragic past. She is seeking justice for the murder of her sister at the hands of the Chinese authorities.
Rare undercover footage of a meeting with the director of the labor camp where Yifei’s sister was killed reveals shocking admissions of torture, slave labor, corruption, and a general disregard for human life pervading the camp system today.
Exclusive interviews with former Chinese Communist Party officials provide a unique insight into the hidden world of terror that many Chinese citizens live without ever knowing that life can, and does, exist with freedom outside their world.
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MOVIE STILLS
BACKGROUND
“Finding Courage” pulls back the veil on the much overlooked, misunderstood, and under-reported Falun Gong community, whose unexpected persistence for religious freedom in China has become the sharpest thorn in the side of the world’s largest dictatorship. Falun Gong (also Falun Dafa) is a Buddhist-based spiritual discipline that includes meditation and stretching exercises, and adherence to the principles of Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance. Falun Gong was reportedly practiced by 100 million people in 1999.
The persecution against Falun Gong is the longest-running persecution campaign by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against its own citizens. The failure of the CCP to eradicate Falun Gong (which former Chinese dictator, Jiang Zemin vowed to do in 1999) has resulted in a total media blackout by the CCP on the popular practice. No Chinese media or media affiliated with the Chinese regime is allowed to report on Falun Gong. This has effectively silenced even media outlets in the West and allowed the CCP to continue to use brutal tactics of torture and brainwashing against Falun Gong practitioners throughout China to this day.
MAIN CHARACTERS IN “FINDING COURAGE”
Yifei Wang, a former Journalist for the Chinese Communist Party becomes a victim of the crackdown on Falun Gong and seeks justice for her sister who had been beaten to death in a labor camp.
Ex-Chinese Defectors have given us first-hand accounts from ex-Communist officials in rare and exclusive interviews on the atrocities the Chinese Communist Party is committing on its campaign to wipe out Falun Gong.
Gordon Fan, Yifei’s husband puts his journalistic skills and life on the line to film the labor camp where Kefei had been murdered. He tries to collect evidence to bring those responsible to justice.
Leo, Yifei’s brother tries to cope with his post-traumatic stress after suffering 12 years in prison. He builds a replica of the chair he was tortured in to help tell his story despite resistance from his wife.
Falun Gong practitioners reveal the horrors of China’s labor camp system. They give their first-hand account of their struggle to keep each other alive and endure unimaginable torture.
Kefei Wang had committed no crime, but ended up in a Chinese prison. For refusing to give up her faith, she had been tortured to death. Kefei is one of the hundreds of thousands of estimated victims in the persecution… each with a family and a story behind their names.
“FINDING COURAGE” MOVIE PRODUCTION DETAILS
Duration: Feature Length, TV Broadcast Hour
Production Company: Swoop Films
Executive Producers: Loren McCune & Stephanie Li
Producers: Paulio Shakespeare & Kay Rubacek
Director & Editor: Kay Rubacek
Writer: Andrew Parker & Kay Rubacek
Assistant Editor: Mauricio Pineda
Associate Producers: Timothy Gebhart, Scott Shields, Kacey Cox, Malury Imbernon, Adrian Morales-Demori, Ray Chen, Susan Liu, Masha Savitz
Original Music: Francis Galluccio & Bruce Aronson
Audio Mix: Malury Imbernon & Adrian Morales-Demori at HEIGA STUDIOS
Current Stage: Complete
Release Date: 2020
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