Aim High In Creation
Determined to stop a new gas mine from being established near her Sydney home, director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$) goes to North Korea to learn how to make a propaganda film. She enlists Pyongyang’s top directors, composers and movie stars to teach her the techniques implemented by the late Kim Jong Il.
Back in Sydney, Anna’s cast apply the North Koreans’ instructions to produce a didactic socialist melodrama, in which “heroic workers” rise up to defeat the “evil, gas-fracking miners.”