Original Film Title: Finding Courage
Director’s Name: Kay Rubacek
Writer’s Name: Kay Rubacek, Andrew Parker
Producer: Paulio Shakespeare, Kay Rubacek
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: Australia, Canada, China, France, New Zealand, United States
Language: Chinese, English
Runtime: 1 hour 20 minutes 47 seconds
Film Description:
13 Best Feature Doc Awards – This gripping intense film is about 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.