Witness Project Wins Second Award at Anthem Film Festival

Witness Project Director Adam "Hawk" Jensen accepts the "Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking" award at the 2018 Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas on June 20.

On July 20, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation‘s (VOC) Witness Project episode won an award for “Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking” at the Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas, NV.

This year’s submission, released May 17, tells the story of Wanda Wos Lorenc, a survivor of both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia who was an active member of the Polish resistance during World War II. After the failed Warsaw Uprising, Wanda was sent to a concentration camp where she was ultimately “liberated” by the Red Army. Upon returning to Warsaw, Wanda and her family fled communist Poland, escaped to Austria, and eventually found their way to the United States.

The award follows VOC’s victory in the same category last year for our Witness Project episode featuring Anastasia Lin, a Chinese-Canadian beauty queen and human rights activist whom the Chinese Communist Party has tried to silence.