Melbourne Premiere of the Award Winning Film

Free China: The Courage To Believe (This is a not-for-profit event)

Includes Q & A with New York based director Michael Perlman (Tibet: Beyond Fear), and labour camp survivor/main character Jennifer Zeng.

Free China: The Courage To Believe, co-produced by NTD Television and World2Be Productions, tells the remarkable story of Australian mother, best-selling author and former Chinese Communist Party member, Jennifer Zeng, who, along with tens of millions of Chinese, was practising a belief that combined Buddhist and Daoist schools—until the Chinese regime initiated a brutal crackdown…

“Intensely compelling…” Karen Curry, Former CNN New York Bureau Chief

“Stirring…narrative power” David DeWitt, NY Times

“…brave, upsetting…deeply inspiring…the film is not only about highlighting China’s humanitarian offenses, it’s about rallying the West to push for dissemination of free information to the Communist state.” Thompson on Hollywood, indieWIRE

Exploring issues ranging from unethical slave labour practices to organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience, Free China: The Courage To Believe is essential viewing for the Australian public, particularly with the increasing importance of China economically as a trading partner.

Supported by: Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, Tibet Council & Human Rights Arts & Film Festival

For interview requests contact Leigh Smith leigh.smith@ntdtv.com 0404 590 771