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Fathom Film Group is pleased to announce The Defector: Escape from North Korea won three Canadian Screen Awards at last night’s Academy...

The Defector is the proud winner of the 2014 Diversity Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. The Defector is not an...

The Defector: Escape from North Korea has been nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards in the Television category – “Best Documentary...

The Defector has been listed as one of the top Canadian films of 2013 by Huffington Post and MovieFone: “Director and centrepiece for the...

Last night in Toronto, Next Media Events hosted their annual Digi Awards to celebrate the companies, products and people making waves in...

After months of touring the festival circuit, we are very excited for our TVO television broadcast premiere! Catch The Defector on TVO in...

The Defector is on the Front Page of the NYTimes today! An exclusive OpDocs piece was prepared for the NYTimes and it spent the morning...

After three sold out screenings of The Defector: Escape from North Korea, our Canadian premiere at Hot Docs has come to a close. We would...

We are very excited to announce that The Defector will officially be having its Canadian Premiere at Canada’s International Documentary...

Check out Jordan Ginsberg’s interview with Ann Shin about North Korea’s “tourism,” latest provocative threats, and making The Defector....

10 Tips from Kim Jong-Il About Interactive Docs Tuesday, March 12, 2013 – 2pm Austin Convention Center Austin Suite 10 important tips you...

We’re also delighted to announce that our DP – Stephen Chung – has been nominated for Best Documentary Cinematography for the 56th Annual...

Following the successful launch of The Defector Interactive Experience on Tuesday, February 19, 2013, The Defector has been generating a...

Fathom Film Group, in collaboration with digital production and design agency Jam3, is pleased to announce the launch of THE DEFECTOR:...

In an interview with ReelWorld Film Festival, director/producer Ann Shin talks about the experience she had pitching The Defector: Escape...

TVO continues to champion great documentaries and has created an online studio that takes you behind the scenes with featured...

TORONTO, ON (October 15, 2012) – Toronto-based Fathom Film Group is pleased to announce its latest production, THE DEFECTOR: Escape from...

Avoiding CCTV cameras and meeting a ‘snakehead’ – some of the things Director Ann Shin will be talking about on AM770 in Toronto, 4pm,...

Fathom Film Group welcomes Heidi Tao Yang to THE DEFECTOR as a producer trainee, thanks to the latest mentoring effort by the Canadian...

The Rogers Documentary Fund, operated by Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund, has awarded $1.6 million in grants to 25 doc...