Beyond Utopia

Ideal Partners

A harrowing journey was brought to life in this immersive documentary about a North Korean family of defectors, including an elderly grandmother and young children, who are smuggled across five countries, over mountains and through the jungles to freedom.

CREDITS

Director: Madeleine Gavin

Producer: Jana Edelbaum, p.g.a., Rachel Cohen, p.g.a., Sue Mi Terry

Editor: Madeleine Gavin

Director of Photography: Kim Hyunseok

Production Sound: Daewon Choi

Original Music: Adam Taylor, Taylor Page

Original Animation: Hirotoshi Iwasaki

Co-Producers: Daewon Choi, Janna Devinsky

Executive Producers: Sharon Chang, Michael Y. Chow, Sue Turley, Randy Gebhardt & Chris Gebhardt, Thor Halvorssen, Victoria Steventon, Cristina Ljungberg, Nina and David Fialkow, Hyeonseo Lee, Hannah Song, Megan Gelstein, Douglas Choi, Geralyn Dreyfous, Meadow Fund, Peter Resnick, Christian Camargo

Co-Executive Producers: The Ginns Family, Burns Park Media, Dawn Bonder, Marci Wiseman, Blaine & Esther Vess, Alan Kingsberg, Beesham A. Seecharan, Jennifer Pelling