Seoul Train is a 2005 documentary that deals with the dangerous journeys of North Korean defectors fleeing through or to China These journeys are both dangerous and daring since if caught they face forced repatriation torture and possible execution Seoul Train has been broadcast on television around the world including on the Emmy Awardwinning PBS series Independent Lens In January 2007 Seoul Train was awarded the Alfred I duPont Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence in broadcast journalism In April 2007 Seoul Train was named runnerup in the National Journalism Awards The film was produced directed and filmed by Jim Butterworth a technology entrepreneur in Colorado in the US and Lisa Sleeth of Incite Productions It was codirected and edited by Aaron Lubarsky an Emmy awardwinning documentary filmmaker in New York
