AVENUES OF ESCAPE

By Leon LEE

TASKOVSKI FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2016

From the Peabody Award-winning director of Human Harvest comes Avenues of Escape, a gripping documentary about escaping persecution in China.

    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Budget
    • N/A
    • Duration
    • 66 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Leon LEE
    • Producer(s)
    • Leon LEE
    • Synopsis
    • During the decades long crackdown on Falun Gong
      practitioners in China which claimed thousands of victims, the lives of three women intertwine as they embark on a dangerous journey to find freedom. Armed with only a road map and a desire for justice, they must rely on their wits, courage and the compassion of strangers, to escape imprisonment and navigate a treacherous passageway out of communist China. Staying behind means certain death, but the road ahead holds no guarantees. How far will they go for freedom?