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form y separately published work icon Aim High in Creation! single work   film/TV  
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Aim High in Creation!
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'Fearing that a gas mine is about to be built right near her home, Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lie$, MIFF 2007), in a world first, goes to Pyongyang in North Korea to meet the masters of propaganda filmmaking: directors, cinematographers, composers and movie stars. Over three weeks they instruct her on how to make a drama in which "heroic workers" overthrow the evil gas miners – executed in the Dear Leader's proudly melodramatic style. As part of her research, Anna even acts in a North Korean movie, playing an "evil American secretary" in a military thriller being shot on a real, captured US spy ship, the USS Pueblo.

'Back in Sydney, Anna's fearless Western cast follow North Korean instructions in a bizarre Kim Jong-il boot camp – with socialist ideology training sessions, the repetitive use of song, workshops on how to act with a "love for the common people" and "hatred of the class enemy" – culminating in an uplifting, anti-capitalist plot guaranteed to inspire workers and farmers everywhere to throw off their capitalist shackles and unite!

'Whether the actors deliver a film so powerful it stops the mine, and is hailed from Pyongyang to Cannes as the greatest thing since Dogme, or whether it's a glorious turkey of which only Kim's son (and perhaps Lars Von Trier) can be proud, one thing's for sure: the MIFF Premiere Fund-supported Aim High in Creation! (which world premieres at MIFF) is a film that forges an astonishingly human bond between North Korea's filmmakers and their Western counterparts, proving that no matter what type of enemy you're fighting, we are a family.'

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  • Further Reference:

    'Q&A with Anna Broinowski (Aim High in Creation!)', Melbourne International Film Festival, 2013. (http://miff.com.au/annabroinowski)

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Works about this Work

North Korean Propaganda Pans Australian Miners’ Might Tim Kroenert , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 11 April vol. 24 no. 6 2014; (p. 37-38)

— Review of Aim High in Creation! Anna Broinowski , 2013 single work film/TV
'Kubrick Who?' Anna Broinowski , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 March 2014; (p. 23-25)

'When Anna Broinowski wanted to make an anti-mining protest film, she turned for help to the masters of propaganda - the North Koreans.'

North Korean Propaganda Pans Australian Miners’ Might Tim Kroenert , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 11 April vol. 24 no. 6 2014; (p. 37-38)

— Review of Aim High in Creation! Anna Broinowski , 2013 single work film/TV
'Kubrick Who?' Anna Broinowski , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 March 2014; (p. 23-25)

'When Anna Broinowski wanted to make an anti-mining protest film, she turned for help to the masters of propaganda - the North Koreans.'

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