{"id":950,"date":"2014-01-30T22:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T06:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=950"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T11:17:14","slug":"canadian-human-smuggling-documentary-the-defector-wins-diversity-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/30\/canadian-human-smuggling-documentary-the-defector-wins-diversity-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian human smuggling documentary \u2018The Defector\u2019 wins diversity prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014A documentary about human smuggling has won the diversity award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema &amp; Television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Defector: Escape from North Korea\u201d claimed the prize for its \u201csearing and powerful\u201d look at a hidden part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The prize honours \u201cexcellence and the racial and cultural diversity of Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Writer, producer and director Ann Shin says her team included people from more than 15 different cultural backgrounds, including Chinese, Korean, German,\u00a0Philippine, British, Jamaican, Iranian and Pakistani descent.<\/p>\n<p>The film centres on a human smuggler who leads North Korean defectors across borders for a living.<\/p>\n<p>The academy also administers the Canadian Screen Awards, which honour the best in homegrown film, television and digital projects. \u201cThe Defector\u201d is up for two prizes in that race\u2014for best direction in a documentary program and best documentary program.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Screen Awards take place March 9 in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014A documentary about human smuggling has won the diversity award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema &amp; Television. \u201cThe Defector: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-culture","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}