BEYOND UTOPIA: The Leon Gast Award for Best Feature Documentary at Woodstock Film Festival 2023

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Congratulations to BEYOND UTOPIA and director Madeleine Gavin on winning The Leon Gast Award for Best Feature Documentary at the 24th Maverick Awards at the 2023 Woodstock Film Festival.
Jury Statement:
This year’s winner is an astonishingly intimate, white-knuckle thriller following families trying to escape North Korea.
Stitched together from raw, first-person footage, it is impossible not to feel the heart-breaking courage as a family clings to each other during a nighttime crossing of the Mekong River. Or the anguish of a mother who may have led her only son into a horrific trap by trying to buy his way to freedom.
Madeleine Gavin’s BEYOND UTOPIA combines high-stakes and human intimacy to grab a hold of us and never let go. It is this year’s winner of The Leon Gast Award for Best Feature Documentary.
Full list of this year's award winners ➡️ woodstockfilmfestival.org/blo...

[@MinkishStyle]

Can't wait to see this movie!!! 😍♥️👍

[@lindarenninger5829]

saw it in Erie Pennsylvania. A Fathom event with only two showings on two evenings.
My friend and I watched it alone in the theater last night. 😢
It was so well told with NO reenactments. Moving and tense and shocking and heartbreaking and heartwarming!

[@celestonic]

Where could people see it in french ?