Zeng and Lee were arrested, illegally sentenced, sent to forced labor camps, and tortured. As their stories unfold, the movie unveils a side of China that the Chinese Communist Party has labored to keep covered up for decades.
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Zeng and Lee were arrested, illegally sentenced, sent to forced labor camps, and tortured. As their stories unfold, the movie unveils a side of China that the Chinese Communist Party has labored to keep covered up for decades.
“I hope this film changes our world,” said Margaret Chew Barringer, a poet and filmmaker. The film festival is the latest initiative from American Insight, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting free speech founded by Barringer. “Free China” was screened to a full house in the Benjamin Franklin Hall.
The documentary Free China: The Courage to Believe is centered around two Falun Gong practitioners who have been imprisoned for their beliefs—Jennifer Zeng, a former communist party member, and Dr. Charles Lee, a Chinese-American businessman.
“Free China: The Courage to Believe,” a documentary film released in 2013 about the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, is being broadcast into China by satellite for the first time as of Jan. 23.