Fathom Events and Roadside Attractions are teaming up to release Madeleine Gavin’s Sundance award-winning documentary “Beyond Utopia.” The film takes viewers on a harrowing journey as one fam…
The film takes viewers on a harrowing journey as one family risks everything to escape from North Korea. The pact comes after the film made itsin the U.S. documentary competition section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the doc audience award.
While the film attracted plenty of interest from distribution companies following its debut in Park City, the market slowdown has led to dealsRoadside acquired domestic rights to “Beyond Utopia” and will release the film theatrically in select markets later this fall, thereby qualifying the docu for Oscar consideration. Fathom Events will release the film in more than 600 theaters nationwide during a special two-night only event on Oct. 23-24.
Using hidden camera footage, Gavin tells the high-stakes journey that a handful of desperate souls make in order to defect from North Korea — a country with the most brutal regime on earth, led by a dictator, Kim Jong-un. The director got ahold of the forbidden footage after it was smuggled out of the country. In addition to capturing the harrowing escape, the footage also captures what it’s like inside North Korea.
“The journey I have been on in the making of this film has been the most meaningful of my career and the friendships I have made will stay with me for a lifetime,” says Gavin. “An entire nation of people — 26 million individuals — have existed inside the shrouded borders of North Korea, and have not been heard by the outside world. I am incredibly grateful to Fathom and to Roadside for helping to bring these voices to audiences around the country. They deserve to be heard.
The documentary’s central figure is Pastor Seungeun Kim, a South Korean Christian who himself defected from North Korea. In the last 10 years, he has helped 1,000 people to escape, risking his own safety.
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