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State of Control

01/01/2016

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1hr 30min

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Documentary

Followed, Surveilled, Hacked, Jailed, Sentenced...Are You Next?

STORY

Two American filmmakers travel undercover in China and Tibet during one of the most precarious times in the country's recent history. Their journey begins in hot-bed areas of Tibetan activism in India and Nepal, before continuing into the most closed off regions of Tibet, during the full scale media blackout that began in 2008 and continues to this day. Their goal is to meet with leading Tibetan activists who are risking their lives to peacefully protest against oppression by the Chinese government's police state in a region kept "in the dark". Traveling undercover, a dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds as secret police maintain 24 hour surveillance of the filmmakers. Unable to document their intended subjects, they are forced to turn the cameras on themselves as they become the targets. All their moves are followed, leading to hotel break-ins, equipment theft, and cyber-hacking and spying - ultimately putting the filmmakers' very lives in danger. Forced to flee and return to the US.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Tom Lantos

    Directors

  • Christian Johnston
  • Darren Mann
  • Abigail Fuller

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Tom Lantos

Self

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