James F. Butterworth

Dartmouth honors Tuck alum with Social Justice Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - February 9, 2007

CONTACT: Kim Keating - 603-646-2733

Hanover, N.H.—James F. Butterworth, a Tuck School of Business 1991 graduate, has been honored by Dartmouth College with the Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award. The award is given annually to members of the Dartmouth and Upper Valley community who have contributed significantly to social justice, peace, civil rights, education, public health, or environmental justice.

Butterworth is founder and principal of Incite Productions. He produced and directed Incite's debut film Seoul Train, a documentary that has won more than a dozen major awards and inspired grassroots and policy-level actions worldwide.

Seoul Train covers the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland and China. According to the film's website (www.seoultrain.com), the film covers the complex geopolitics behind this growing and potentially explosive humanitarian crisis. By combining vérité footage, personal stories, and interviews with experts and government officials, the film depicts the flouting of international laws by major countries, the inaction and bureaucracy of the United Nations, and the heroics of activists that put themselves in harm's way to save the refugees.

For more information on Dartmouth's Social Justice Awards and a list of recipients, please visit www.dartmouth.edu/~ide/programs/socialjustice.

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