Letter From Masanjia (2018)
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Letter from Masanjia is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Leon Lee and released in 2018.[1] The film profiles the case of Sun Yi, a Chinese Falun Gong practitioner turned political prisoner who was responsible for exposing significant human rights abuses at the Masanjia Labor Camp when his letter was found by Oregon resident Julie Keith in a box of Halloween decorations, and made headlines worldwide.[2] The discovery of this letter and the subsequent wide coverage by news agencies in part led to China announcing major reforms, and the abolishment of the labor camp system.
In 2012, Oregon mother Julie Keith opened a package of Halloween decorations from her local Kmart. Inside, she found something far more unsettling than a bunch of plastic skeletons and gravestones: an SOS letter from the prisoner who made them.
The amazing true story of a woman in Damascus, Oregon who found a handwritten letter inside a Halloween decoration she had purchased at a local K-Mart. (after it sat unopened for two years) It was from a detainee at the Masanjia Labor Camp, a re-education through forced labor camp in China, asking that it be sent to a human rights organization. It detailed the torture they're forced to endure there (with Falun Gong* practitioners being treated even worse than most) and the story quickly spread around world news outlets.
Julie realizes she has to do something and after exploring a few avenues, she takes the letter to the press. The press ends up running with the story and it quickly goes viral, being picked up by every Western major news outlet. Sun Yi, now released from Masanjia labor camp, regularly breaks through the Chinese firewall to read western news. Suddenly, he sees a headline and sees an image of the letter he wrote. He realizes that his letter made it across the world and has been read and is now worldwide news. Suddenly, Sun Yi is fearful for his life.
But who wrote that letter What had their life been like in Masanjia Labor Camp These unanswered questions compelled Vancouver filmmaker Leon Lee to begin work on Letter from Masanjia, which screens May 5 at the 2018 DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
Now free from the camp, Sun Yi begins to document his experience as a human rights activist while Julie, the recipient of his letter continues to raise awareness of his fight. Through their combined efforts, they seek to effect change against a Chinese government that is notorious for the suppression of differing ideologies.
In the U.S., Julie Keith and her family found a distressed message hidden in a box of Halloween Made in China decorations. The desperate note was written by a Chinese political prisoner named Sun Yi from the Masanjia labor camp, more than 5,000 kilometers away. The discovery of that note, in which he claimed to be imprisoned for his spiritual beliefs and subjected to torture tactics by the Chinese authorities, went globally viral and led to the closure of the labor camp. Once released, Sun Yi claimed to be the author of that letter and went on to live under the Chinese government's spotlight.
Revisiting the camp with pen and paper, he talks to us as he draws. You can feel his fear and how his time unfolded at the Masanjia labor camp, from when he first entered the labor camp and the scary job of working on the Halloween decorations. A letter from his wife gave him hope and the idea to write SOS letters emerged. Twenty letters were written and others in the camp helped him until they were caught. Thus, the true nature of the labor camp is revealed through the torture methods used to break the will of the inmates. Sun Yi draws his nightmare of being tortured along with the illusions he saw while bearing the most unbearable torture methods.
The mother from Oregon often worried about the person who wrote the letter and about whether her actions in publishing the article may have caused more harm than good. Julie decides to make the journey far away from her family in Oregon to visit Sun Yi in China. She brings him a gift from her hometown and she is met with a bouquet of flowers.
This documentary about Sun Yi gave me a great insight into the labor camps in China with his message shown in his drawings. How he found hope in a letter from his wife that led to exposing the crimes in the Masanjia labor camp. Sun Yi shows us how one person can help free others as with the screening of this movie many people were released from the Masanjia labor camp. This is a movie you can keep in your heart. You can view Letter From Masanjia online or find out when the movie will be screened in your local area.
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