Playing Frisbee in North Korea (DVD)

Playing Frisbee in North Korea is the first documentary produced and directed byan African-American female filmmaker from inside North Korea. The idea began at a conference on Korean Re-unification organized by General Colin L. Powell and the Colin Powell Center, where director Savanna Washington was a Graduate Fellow. Through verite footage from inside North Korea, interviews with North Korean refugees, long time aid workers, scholars, and experts on the topic, this documentary provides an authentic, on the ground perspective of the lives, struggles, and humanity of the people of North Korea.Called The Hermit Kingdom, North Korea is an enigma wrapped in a quagmire ofmisinformation, international distrust and fear. In the middle of this are the people ofNorth Korea, isolated from the world by their own government. Are they puppets of the North Korean government that many claim, or everyday people trying to live their lives and support their families under the strain of chronic malnutri