Korea's 'Iron Crows' wins at Dutch documentary festival

SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Yonhap) -- "Iron Crows," a South Korean documentary featuring
laborers at a ship demolition yard in Bangladesh, received the top honor for
mid-length documentaries by the International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam, producer of the film said Wednesday.
"Iron Crows," directed by Park Hong-nam and produced by public broadcaster KBS,
shows how workers risk their lives for US$2 a day at the world's largest ship
demolition yard in Chittagong.
"The impressive footage evoking an atmosphere of menace and danger," the
festival's Web site said.
The 22nd Amsterdam documentary fest ran Nov. 19-29 in the Dutch city, featuring
more than 500 documentary films from around Europe and Asia.
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