Annecy 2020: TV Pitch ‘38th Parallel’ Documents Unseen Family Life in North Korea
Ann-Marie Corvin Mifa’s TV series & specials pitches went live on Thursday with an epic eight-parter from the U.K.’s Mosaic Films, focusing on the life of a young family growing up in North Korea.Directed by award-winning director Andy Glynne, “38th Parallel: Hidden Voices from North Korea” takes the collected stories of defectors from the secretive regime and distills them into an ordinary family’s journey.With a narrative spanning over 70 years – from the birth of North Korea to the present day – we follow the Park family – a soldier, a nurse and their two children – from their relative positions of privilege in Pyongyang to their banishment to a sparse northern town.There, the family deal with famine, poverty, torture and the constant