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After months of touring the festival circuit, we are very excited for our TVO television broadcast premiere! Catch The Defector on TVO in...

The Defector will be having its first broadcast this June in Canada and Australia, marking the 63rd anniversary of the Korean war....

The Defector is on the Front Page of the NYTimes today! An exclusive OpDocs piece was prepared for the NYTimes and it spent the morning...

After three sold out screenings of The Defector: Escape from North Korea, our Canadian premiere at Hot Docs has come to a close. We would...

We are very excited to announce that The Defector will officially be having its Canadian Premiere at Canada’s International Documentary...

Check out Jordan Ginsberg’s interview with Ann Shin about North Korea’s “tourism,” latest provocative threats, and making The Defector....

10 Tips from Kim Jong-Il About Interactive Docs Tuesday, March 12, 2013 – 2pm Austin Convention Center Austin Suite 10 important tips you...

We’re also delighted to announce that our DP – Stephen Chung – has been nominated for Best Documentary Cinematography for the 56th Annual...

Following the successful launch of The Defector Interactive Experience on Tuesday, February 19, 2013, The Defector has been generating a...

Fathom Film Group, in collaboration with digital production and design agency Jam3, is pleased to announce the launch of THE DEFECTOR:...

In an interview with ReelWorld Film Festival, director/producer Ann Shin talks about the experience she had pitching The Defector: Escape...

TVO continues to champion great documentaries and has created an online studio that takes you behind the scenes with featured...

TORONTO, ON (October 15, 2012) – Toronto-based Fathom Film Group is pleased to announce its latest production, THE DEFECTOR: Escape from...

We’ll be on the Nat&Marie show today at 9pm talking about the Kims (Jong-il and Jong-un) and the latest on our ongoing feature...

Producer/Director Ann Shin will be speaking at Doc Toronto’s Conference on Alternative Film Financing this Saturday, February 25, at the...

Avoiding CCTV cameras and meeting a ‘snakehead’ – some of the things Director Ann Shin will be talking about on AM770 in Toronto, 4pm,...

Our line producer Heidi Tao Yang has won the highly competitive WIFT-T CBC Business of Broadcasting Mentorship. She’s been a key leader...

Fathom Film Group welcomes Heidi Tao Yang to THE DEFECTOR as a producer trainee, thanks to the latest mentoring effort by the Canadian...

The Rogers Documentary Fund, operated by Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund, has awarded $1.6 million in grants to 25 doc...

Feature documentary and cross-platform project, The Defector: Escape from North Korea, was selected for POV funding from the Canada Media...