Diana Means, host of Visionary Voices goes behind the scenes into the making of our latest film "Finding Courage" with Director Kay Rubacek. Check it out HERE!
Tune in to hear Rollye James, long-time radio talk show host discuss “Who Are China’s Walking Dead?”, a new book (now available for purchase) published by author and filmmaker Kay Rubacek.
Host of War Room Pandemic, Steve Bannon, interviews Director of “Finding Courage,” Kay Rubacek, to discuss the film, the Chinese Communist Party, and U.S. politicians willingness to turn a blind eye to their human rights abuses for financial gain.
In many ways, the documentary Finding Courage is an accidental film. Its director, Kay Rubacek from Swoop Films initially, never sought to make it a full-length feature.
Having just finished producing the award-winning Hard to Believe documentary — about forced organ harvesting in China — Kay was looking to make her directorial debut with a short 10-minute film.
Marking the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4th, 1989, the Chinese Communist regime's sinister treatment of young Hong Kong protesters now provides the world another glimpse into the criminal minds operating the world's largest dictatorship. Hosted by Swoop Films producer, Kay Rubacek.
“A hard-hitting documentary about the unimaginable repression under which people of faith suffer in China. The harrowing story follows a loving family as they risk everything to get undercover footage that will bring to the world the truth of their daughter's brutal torture and death in a Communist labor camp.”
~ Anders Corr, Ph.D., Journal of Political Risk
CHINA DEEP DIVE with former surgeon Enver Tohti who analyses images that surfaced of the Chinese Communist Party conducting public executions and removing organs from the executed in mainland China. Having taken part in these operations before, Enver Tohti weighs in.
Swoop Films' DEEP DIVE with Pavel Porubiak, Senior Analyst from the Institute to Research the Crimes of Communism (IRCC) discusses Western corporations and governments complicity in the Chinese regime's killing and exploitation of its own citizens. Below is the IRCC's list of companies involved in supplying China with organ transplantation equipment that, beyond all reasonable doubt, is used in the forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
U.S. Director Kay Rubacek reveals the Chinese regime’s ambitions
"Essential viewing for anyone who cares about international human rights."
~ Nick Holdsworth, Modern Times
Swoop Films' DEEP DIVE with investigative journalist and author, Ethan Gutmann, discusses his ongoing research into the Chinese Communist Party's sinister forced organ transplantation system in the Xinjiang province in China. The numbers he gave of the victims in this crime indicate murder of Uyghurs on a mass scale. Hosted by Swoop Films producer, Kay Rubacek.
Swoop Films' DEEP DIVE with international human rights lawyer and author, David Matas, discusses the current COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on his human rights work. Matas details the state of forced organ harvesting in China today which he has investigated since 2006. He also shares what inspires him to continue to tackle human rights abuses head on. Hosted by Swoop Films producer, Kay Rubacek.
Film Director & Producer, Kay Rubacek, joins Sarah Westall in an in-depth interview about our upcoming film "Finding Courage" discussing the parallels we are seeing in China play out in America today. Check it out!
Part one:
Swoop Films' DEEP DIVE with former Chinese Doctor, Enver Tohti, discusses how Chinese citizens view Chinese propaganda, particularly in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic and how the the crime of state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience is still taking place now, despite the pandemic. Hosted by Swoop Films producer, Kay Rubacek.
New York: May 8, 2020. For Immediate Release
Due to widespread film festival cancellations and postponements, Swoop Films is inviting media, bloggers, and V.I.P.s to review the award-winning film, “Finding Courage” directly from the filmmakers.
“‘Finding Courage’ is a story about real people in America whose lives are being hurt by the decisions of the Chinese regime. With tense China-US relations due to the current pandemic, audiences want stories about China and how it is affecting our lives in the rest of the world,” says producer/director Kay Rubacek, who has first-hand experience of being locked in a Chinese prison cell, and is also available for an interview.
“Finding Courage” is 80 minutes long and in English (with few subtitles). It is narrated by the beautiful voice of Lea B. Olsen, former Big Ten basketball player and ESPN broadcaster for the WNBA. The film’s story follows former Chinese journalist, Yifei Wang, living in exile in the United States, who is desperate to reunite her broken family and get justice for the murder of her sister. However, her choices mean the difference between life and death for her family who are still in China.
The film includes rare interviews with former Chinese regime officials including a former director of a Chinese labor camp, a secret agent, and an official for China's propaganda department. All of the interviewees are risking their personal safety, and that of their family, by providing testimony in this film.
The film has won a Gold Remi Award from the Houston International Film Festival, and received official selection from Arizona Film Festival and Jersey Shore Film Festival, however many festivals are on hold due to pandemic restrictions.
The filmmakers are especially thankful to Grammy Award-winning engineer Adrian Morales-Demori who lead the film’s audio post at Heiga Studios, Bruce Aronson and Francis Galluccio (who has written songs for major artists including Jessica Simpson, and Celine Dion) who created the original score for the film, phenomenal singer Mika Hale, and Sterling Campbell (musician for David Bowie and B52’s) who produced the soon-to-be-released “Courage Is Found” theme song for the film.
To review "Finding Courage" email: hello@swoopfilms.com
Movie trailer: www.FindingCourageMovie.com
Press kit: https://www.swoopfilms.com/press-kit
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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!
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:
A list created by "Nature"on the top ten most influential scientists of 2019 gave a nod to Wendy Rogers, a bioethicist at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia who has been investigating forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience in China. She cited our documentary "Hard To Believe" that she viewed at a conference in 2015 as one of the main catalysts that inspired her to engage in the issue beyond research into activism. Her research team found wide-ranging evidence of the Chinese Communist Party's atrocities in what they labeled in their investigations as "one of the world’s major bioethical scandals." Check out her story below!
Special Pre-screening Review of 'Finding Courage'
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:
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
Dear Friend,
You've heard about the allegations of forced organ harvesting in China through reports and via our documentary film "Hard To Believe.” We are relieved to give you an update that the Independent Tribunal Into Forced Organ Harvesting of Prisoners of Conscience in China, after 12 months of reviewing testimonies and thousands of pages of evidence, has come to its final verdict. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is to be held guilty for its crimes against humanity.
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 international, Independent China Tribunal investigated the forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience in mainland China.
Swoop Films was asked to create this video for the tribunal to document the historic findings of the tribunal as given at their last hearing, where their Final Judgment was read by Sir Geoffrey Nice. Our documentary “Hard To Believe” was submitted as evidence in the hearing.
Link to the Independent China Tribunal website - Here
The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) website - Here
New Tang Dynasty Television showcased the viral FOX report about Yifei Wang and her family. Undercover Footage from 'Finding Courage' has given millions in the report an inside look into China’s labor camp system.
