Unsilenced

Unsilenced (2022)

When the Chinese Communist Party launches a brutal crackdown on its citizens, a team of innocent students risk everything to expose the deadly propaganda and fight for freedom.

Date of release
2022-08-12
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Leon Lee

Casting

Interesting facts

Unsilenced is a 2021 Canadian drama film written, produced and directed by Leon Lee. Inspired by the experiences of former Tsinghua University PhD student Wang Weiyu, the film dramatizes the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China after the practice was banned by the Chinese government in 1999.

Production

Unsilenced was written by Leon Lee, Jocelyn Tennant and Ty Chan, and produced by Flying Cloud Productions. Lee, a Vancouver-based filmmaker, had previously directed Human Harvest, which won a Peabody Award in 2014.

The film was inspired by Wang Weiyu, a former Tsinghua University PhD student who was imprisoned in China for more than eight years for practising Falun Gong before leaving China in 2018. Lee developed the film after speaking with Wang about his experiences.

Because of the film's subject matter, production did not take place in mainland China. The film was shot in Vancouver and Taiwan. Lee said that some crew members used aliases or remained anonymous because of concerns about possible repercussions, and that some cast members and location owners withdrew from the project after learning about the subject matter.

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