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Aim High in Creation!: A One-of-a-Kind Journey Inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine
Written by Anna Broinowski
Narrated by Emma Fenney
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Follow the only Westerner ever granted full access to North Korea’s propaganda machine: its film industry.
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Anna Broinowski
Anna Broinowski fell into filmmaking by accident, unearthing Japanese subcultures in her cult hit Hell Bento!! She's won some shiny things, including three AFI Awards, the Al Jazeera Golden Award, and Best Nonfiction Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. Before filmmaking, Anna was an actor, rock violinist, writer and law school dropout. She has a PhD from Macquarie University. Anna lives in Sydney with her daughter, a wise Glaswegian, and Tripod, a three-legged cat.
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