Freedom Swimmer
2022•15m•4.0•Released
AnimationDocumentary
Olivia Martin McGuire (China Love) parallels a grandfather’s journey to safety during the Cultural Revolution with his granddaughter’s fight for freedom in Hong Kong today. Interweaving unflinching testimony of the elder’s exodus from the Chinese mainland, exquisitely animated recreations of the perilous escape to Hong Kong through land and sea, and vivid, evocative archival footage of both mid-20th-century China and the Hong Kong protests today, Freedom Swimmer emerges as a gripping and timely account of the struggle for survival across generations.
Director
Agnès Patron
Writer
Olivia Martin-McGuire
Languages
Cantonese, English
Studio
No Thing Productions
Production
Company
No Thing Productions
Company
Sacrebleu Productions
Producer
Olivia Martin-McGuire
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