‘Aim High in Creation’ is a revolutionary comedy about the cinematic genius of North Korea’s late Dear Leader Kim Jong Il, with a ground breaking experiment at its heart: a propaganda film, made according to the rules of his 1987 Manifesto ‘The Cinema and Directing’. Determined to stop a new gas mine near her Sydney home, director Anna Broinowski goes to North Korea to learn from the masters of propaganda cinema. Pyongyang’s top directors, composers and movie stars take her to script rehearsals, Taekwondo stunt fights, group dances and drunken picnics to teach her Kim Jong Il’s techniques. Once back in Sydney, Anna’s fearless cast follow the North Korean’s instructions to produce a didactic socialist melodrama, full of song and kick-ass fights, in which “heroic workers” rise up to defeat the “evil, gas-­fracking miners”. On August 21st, we will screen ‘Aim High in Creation’, for which Koryo Tours acted as executive producer, at Pop-Up Beijing. After the film screening there will be a Q&A with Koryo Tours’ founder Nick Bonner, who will also talk about the Pyongyang International Film Festival taking place in September. [Dir: Anna Broinowski, AUS, 2013, 96mins] Location: Pop-Up Beijing North Side, Ground Level (Suite 104) Building 22, Courtyard 4 Gongti Bei Lu Chaoyang, Beijing Hello@popupbeijing.com http://popupbeijing.com +86 10 6502 5725 (12pm-10pm)