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Nanking Massacre
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Research & documentation of survivors
Toronto ALPHA obtained the full co-operation from Iris' parents for providing valuable information for this film about their beloved daughter. A research team headed by Digby Cook and other respected researchers in the industry had started extensive research work since last summer. They had been able to review many archives on Nanjing Massacre and Iris Chang, and with the approval of Brett Douglas, Iris' widower, we were able to uncover more than 200 boxes of research work and amazing archives of Iris Chang at Hoover Institute. Not only we were able to obtain the original video tapes taken by Iris on survivors while she was in Nanjing, we were so honored that David McGee gave us the original films taken by his father Missionary John McGee on many victims of the Massacre in 1937.
The production team found and interviewed numerous survivors, most of them quite frail and old, at sites with similar surroundings where the atrocities happened or right in their own homes. We were very grateful to be able to interview the only surviving victim who had been interviewed by Iris ten years ago. Interviews with the survivors proved to be very emotional and a few of us were in tears. However, the emotion made us more determined to tell their stories to the world. We also interviewed professors who had helped Iris when she stayed in Nanjing.
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Nanking
Directed by William Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Starring Rosalind Chao, Stephen Dorff, Mariel Hemingway
Rated R
Release Date: Dec. 12, 2007
