A State of Mind is a 2004 documentary film directed by Daniel Gordon and by producer Nicholas Bonner The film follows two North Korean child gymnasts and their families for over eight months during training for the 2003 Pyongyang mass games. The film won the Best Sports Documentary of the Year Award, two awards at the North Korean Pyongyang International Film Festival in 2004 and was shown at 11 other film festivals worldwide before being released in a theatrical run in 2005. UK-based Dance band Faithless used clips from the documentary for the video to the single "I Want More".

[edit] See also

• The Game of Their Lives (2002), a previous film by Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner about North Korean athletes and "Crossing the Line" (2006), their most recent film on the US defector James Joseph Dresnok who defected to North Korea in 1962 and never left.
• List of films set in or about North Korea
• Mass games

[edit] External links

• Official site
• A State of Mind at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.koryogroup.com (Koryo Tours provided the travel logistics for the making of the film)

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