Letter From Masanjia
Sunday, March 3 at 2:30 pm in Vesuvius (N205)

Date
February 8, 2019
About Project
DIRECTOR
LEON LEE
COUNTRY
CANADA
RUNNING TIME
77 mins
YEAR
2018
LANGUAGE
English
ABOUT THE FILM
Having bought a discounted “Made in China” Halloween decoration at an Oregon Kmart, Julie Keith was astounded to find a handwritten SOS letter hidden inside, which political prisoner Sun Yi had sent from the notoriously brutal Masanjia Labour Camp. In this real-life thriller, award-winning filmmaker Leon Lee found a way to contact Sun Yi and taught him to take secret-camera footage via Skype, exposing the harrowing persecution of Falun Gong and – miraculously – leading to the abolition of China’s entire labour camp system. Winner of multiple Audience Awards and named Best Documentary at the St. Louis International Film Festival.
Director Leon Lee & Associate Producer Jacey Shi in attendance.