14/05/2013 - Sales company acquires a look into the world of North Korean cinema

The UK’s High Point Media Group has acquired international rights for feature documentary, Aim High in Creation, a voyage into the little-seen world of North Korean cinema by Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$). Broinowski had unprecedented access into the highly secretive Communist state and got insights and guidance from industry insiders and made her own short film according to exact principles dictated by the late “Dear Leader”, Kim Jong Il, who himself executive produced nearly 1,900 titles and gave “on the spot creative guidance” on some 11,900 films.

The film is produced by Lizzette Atkins of Unicorn Films and financed through Screen Australia, Film Victoria, and the Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund. High Point will represent the film at the Cannes market.

High Point’s Director of Acquisitions, Piers Nightingale said,  “Uniquely daring on just about every level, Aim High in Creation takes us on an extraordinary sideways journey into one of the most hermetically sealed, headline-grabbing nations on the planet.”

Atkins said, “Full of lost in translation moments, Aim High in Creation is a revolutionary comedy about propaganda but at its heart it is a deeply moving story about the humanity which binds us together across cultures and ideology.”