Fathom Film Group is pleased to announce The Defector: Escape from North Korea won three Canadian Screen Awards at last night’s Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television ceremony: Best Documentary Program, Best Direction in a Documentary Program and the Academy’s Diversity Award. A great team win! It’s a testament to the incredible talent that came together to make this film. Heartfelt congratulations to: Director of Photography – STEPHEN CHUNG Supervising Editor and Co-Writer

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 like to thank everyone that came out, all those in the line-ups spanning around the block, and in the packed audiences. The amazing reception has made this our most successful premiere yet! We had lots of outstanding press from The CBC, CTV News Canada, Global News, The Toronto Star, and Random House as well as some great response from blog

We are very excited to announce that The Defector will officially be having its Canadian Premiere at Canada’s International Documentary Film Festival – Hot Docs – this April! We invite you to attend one of our three screenings: Sat, Apr 27 – 9:00 PM           Scotiabank Theatre, Cinema 4 Mon, Apr 29 – 3:30 PM        Scotiabank Theatre, Cinema 5 Sat, May 4 – 6:30 PM                                               The Regent For all of our Toronto supporters who missed the world

In an interview with ReelWorld Film Festival, director/producer Ann Shin talks about the experience she had pitching The Defector: Escape from North Korea at the Hot Docs Forum, and gives some advice for those getting ready to pitch. “It was completely nerve wracking,” said Shin. “There are more than 20 people listening to your pitch and the responses of the first two people can affect how the rest of the people respond.  The mood can change and you have no idea which way it’

We’ve been busy – at Hotdocs, DocXchange, and finishing off 2 new trailers for Pyongyang Express. Here’s one of them for you to watch. This is the demo reel for the Interactive Website we’ve been developing, it’s related to the Pyongyang Express the film. The Pyongyang Express Interactive Website lets you find out what it’s like to try to escape from North Korea. You walk in the shoes of a North Korean refugee and try to find your way across China and into South-East Asia. Ho

Fathom Film Group is selected for DocXchange, a closed conference and market put together by Filmkontakt Nord and Hotdocs. We will be meeting with interactive developers and commissioners from Europe and North America to discuss the latest ideas in the burgeoning field of interactive documentary – everything from gamification (hate the word) to new platforms and business models. #interactivedocumentary #annshin #fathomfilmgroup #doc #hotdocs #pyongyangexpress #gamification #d

We’re excited to bring Pyongyang Express to the table at the 2011 Hotdocs Forum. We’ll be sitting down with foreign broadcasters and unveiling the latest reel from this feature documentary and rich media project. In the meantime we are busy shooting and editing new material, and drawing up designs for the interactive website and related digital applications. More on this later. See you at Hotdocs, May 4 and 5, 2011. #annshin #fathomfilmgroup #hotdocs #pyongyangexpress #forum