"FINDING COURAGE" wins a Gold Remi Award!

The 53rd Houston International Film Festival has awarded “Finding Courage” with a Gold Remi Award in the Political / International Issues Category! With entries for this coveted award being received from over 4,500 total category entries from 76 nations in 2020, we are truly honored to have our film be selected for this wonderful accolade.

WorldFest is one of the oldest, longest-running, and largest film and video competitions in the world. It has given first top honors to Stephen Spielberg, George Luscas, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Ang Lee, the Coen Brohers, Ridley Scott, Oliver Stone and many others over its many years running. WorldFest’s Remi Award is named after Fredric Rmington, the great artist and sculptore who captured the spirit of Texas and the West with his brilliant work.

Thank you very much to WorldFest!

Belgium: PBA Nursing students watch ‘Hard to Believe’

UC Leuven-Limburg in Leuven, Belgium, hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary, Hard To Believe. This event was part of their ‘International week 2019’. The audience consisted of PBA Nursing students, lecturers and their international colleagues.

Hard To Believe, produced by Swoop Films, is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience, and the response—or lack of it—around the world.

Afterwards ETAC’s Benelux Manager, Elke Van den Brande, presented on further developments since the film. The China Tribunal was introduced and students were invited to spread the word and to join ETAC’s Student Movement.

One of the students, Anton Dolhain, gave his first reaction after watching the documentary.

“I can raise awareness, but the actual changes will be made by the politicians. They need to improve the law. They need to change it everywhere, otherwise it won’t stop.”

Due to its great success, the screening will be repeated two times during the upcoming 2020 edition of UC Leuven-Limburg’s international week.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT ETAC’S STUDENT MOVEMENT – https://endtransplantabuse.org/student-movement/

Student feedback at the screening.

Check out the original article here:

Special Pre-screening Review of 'Finding Courage'

Special Pre-screening Review of 'Finding Courage'

Description

Film Preview Screening of 'Finding Courage'

We at Swoop Films are looking for valuable audience feedback of our film that is near completion. We ask that you fill out our questionnaire after the film.

Event is free of charge

Synopsis:
A former journalist for China's state-run media and her family, having faced torture and murder at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party in China, must find the courage to heal from the past and face again their persecutors as they begin a covert operation into a labor camp to collect evidence from her sister's killers.

Teaser:

https://vimeo.com/337196041

Find out more about 'Finding Courage' at: Swoopfilms.com

Where:

Seligmann Center

23-26 White Oak Drive, Sugar Loaf, NY, 10981

https://occitizensfoundation.org/seligmann-center/

When:

Friday, Nov 22, 6pm - 7:45pm

"Hard To Believe” Film Submitted as Evidence of the Chinese Communist Party’s $1billion Genocidal Industry of Forced Organ Harvesting

To view a briefing of the tribunal, click on the image above

Our film “Hard To Believe” had been used as evidence against the Chinese Communist Party in its mass killing of prisoners of conscience. The tribunal’s final verdict was that China under the Chinese Communist Party was a “criminal state” and that mass killings of innocent civilians were taking place to sell their organs.

The verdict of the tribunal and its findings are hoped to be used to urge international organizations to take action.

The Independent Tribunal Into Forced Organ Harvesting From Prisoners Of Conscience In China has been initiated by the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse In China (ETAC).

Condemnation of the Chinese Communist Party for its forced organ-harvesting of prisoners of conscience is growing internationally. Many survivors of Chinese labor camps and human rights lawyers among others provided evidence and gave testimony throughout the tribunal which lasted several days. The tribunal, led by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, a world-renowned lawyer and professor of law stated of the evidence given, “We, the tribunal members are all certain, unanimously, and sure beyond all reasonable doubt that in China, forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practiced for a substantial period of time, involving a very substantial number of victims.”

The 2016 report “Bloody Harvest/The Slaughter: An Update” published by David Kilgour, David Matas and Ethan Gutmann who were a part of our film Hard To Believe which sheds light on forced organ harvesting in China gave statistics pointing to genocide with between 60,000 and 100,000 organ transplants per year from Falun Gong, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and House Christians who are specifically targeted groups whose members are killed for their organs. This tribunal may be one of the most significant events to date by the international community to address and hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for its crimes against humanity.

Watch Sir Geoffrey Nice’s closing remarks below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofQA7FVCoPc