Munya Chawawa Taking Channel 4’s ‘How To Survive A Dictator’ To North Korea
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Munya Chawawa is taking his BAFTA-nominated How to Survive a Dictator brand to one of the most notorious places on Earth.
The viral comedian is shining a spotlight on North Korea‘s Kim Jong-Un via a Channel 4 doc from Late Night Lycett producer Rumpus Media, which will be at Sheffield DocFest next month.
Chawawa, known for his recognizable brand of TikTok humor and a regular on British TV, will head to Switzerland, Seoul and suburban West London for How to Survive a Dictator: North Korea, tracking down a school friend of Kim’s and meeting the people who have seen the effects of the Kim regime first hand.
In the West, Kim is often presented as a maniac ready to blow up the world, but he has confounded critics during his 12-year reign, enjoying bromances with Donald Trump, Dennis Rodman and Vladimir Putin. “It’s been tricky to not feel a sense of ‘apocalypse anxiety’ recently and a lot of that stems from North Korea and Kim Jong Un, so doing this doc has not only been fascinating, but also given me a strange sense of closure,” said Chawawa.
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