North Korean defector speaks of what her life was like in North Korea before escaping and beyond. What a brave and amazing woman to share her story with the world! CC BY TEDTalentSearch, Hyeonseo ...

Hyeonseo Lee, now an activist and a human rights campaigner, said she was baffled by the propaganda North Koreans are fed.

Extra context is provided through studio interviews with historians, experts and other defectors including Hyeonseo Lee as well as newsreel and North Korea propaganda videos.

How did it come about? MG: I was initially approached by our producers, and they had acquired the rights to Hyeonseo Lee’s memoir, “The Girl With Seven Names.” ...

That picture of the dictatorship’s treatment of the disloyal, as detailed by interviews with experts including U.S. official Sue Mi Terry, author Barbara Demick and defector-activist Hyeonseo ...

This engrossing documentary, which follows a family’s flight from North Korea, plays like a horror film, except the horrors are real.

‘Beyond Utopia’: a documentary that takes viewers on an escape from North Korea The film, which has collected a variety of festival awards this year, screens Saturday at the Brattle as part of ...

Director Madeleine Gavin came onto the project after meeting Hyeonseo Lee, author of the book The Girl with Seven Names, who fled North Korea 25 years ago.

Director Madeleine Gavin came onto the project after meeting Hyeonseo Lee, author of the book The Girl with Seven Names, who fled North Korea 25 years ago.