Private Project

The Black Zone

The Black Zone is a decade long journey following workers from a covert and daring medical relief program as they struggle to provide aid amidst war atrocities inside the jungles of Burma.

  • Grace Baek
    Director
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1720647/
  • Grace Baek
    Producer
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1720647/
  • Juan Antonio Puyol
    Producer
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1319896/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  • Sean Puglisi
    Producer
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2671059/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  • Wendy Shuey
    Editor
    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1913452/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    human rights, health
  • Runtime:
    42 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 30, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    Myanmar, Thailand
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    HD, Mini DV, Hi8
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Grace Baek

GRACE BAEK is a filmmaker and media consultant with a passion for stories that daylight vital global health, human rights, and environmental issues. She lived in Southeast Asia while investigating Thailand's oppressive migrant and refugee policies, and worked alongside Burmese human rights groups living in political exile. Footage filmed and smuggled out of Burma by these groups is woven into her documentary, The Black Zone.

Based in Los Angeles, Grace's work includes coverage of homelessness and the housing crisis in Los Angeles, the HIV epidemic in India, women, microfinance, and the Grameen Bank, global warming, and displacement in Bangladesh, among others. Her work has aired on Current TV, A&E, Travel Channel, ABC, and CBS.

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